ABSTRACT
John Cennick was active in the middle decades of the eighteenth century and participated as an evangelist initially as a lay preacher under the auspices of a nascent Methodism, and later as a Moravian deacon in the ranks of the renewed Unitas Fratrum under Count Zinzendorf. The pioneering role of Cennick is acknowledged in other documents emanating from the Moravian Church. There are intriguing aspects of Cennick’s sense of his own identity which have not been addressed by previous studies but are important to recognise as the people approach his spiritual formation, conversion, vocation, and apprenticeship as an evangelist. It is easy to overlook key aspects of Cennick’s religiosity by focusing too narrowly on his activism and itinerant evangelism.
