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| birth_place = Vinecash, County Armagh, Irelanddf=yes07170305}} | death_place = Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America| resting_place = Abington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania| education = Honorary Master of Arts| alma_mater = Yale College (1725)Presbyterian polity#Minister>Presbyterian minister| years_active = 1726–1764Great Awakening#First Great Awakening>First Great Awakening in the Middle ColoniesPrinceton University>College of New Jersey| spouse = Cornelia de Peyster (2nd wife)Sarah Spofford (3rd wife)| children = Cornelia Tennent| parents = William Tennent, Catherine Kennedy| relatives = William Tennent (brother)John Tennent (brother)Charles Tennent (brother)}}Gilbert Tennent (5 February 1703 – 23 July 1764) was a Presbyterian revivalist minister in Colonial America. Born into a Scotch-Irish family in County Armagh, Ireland, he migrated to America with his parents, studied theology, and along with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, became one of the leaders of the evangelical revival known as the First Great Awakening. His most famous sermon, On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, also known as the “Nottingham Sermon,” compared “Old Side” ministers to the biblical Pharisees of the Gospels, triggering a schism in the Presbyterian Church which lasted for 17 years. A prolific writer, Tennent would later work towards reunification of the two synods involved.

Early life

Gilbert Tennent, the eldest son of William Tennent and Catherine Kennedy, was born at Vinecash, County Armagh, Ireland. Gilbert’s father was a Church of Ireland minister who emigrated to the American colonies before 1718, when he successfully applied to the Synod of Philadelphia to be accepted as a Presbyterian minister.THESIS, Rickards, Cheryl Ann, 2003, Gilbert Tennent: An Analysis of His Evangelistic Ministry, Methods and Message during the Great Awakening,digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/283, DMin Thesis, Liberty University, In 1721, the family moved from Westchester, New York to Pennsylvania where William served as pastor at Bensalem in Bucks County. Five years later he accepted a call to Neshaminy in what is now Warminster where he remained until his death in 1746.