spread of Enlightenment ideas to the American colonies‚ aspects of the intellectual movement bled over to influence religious aspects of American society‚ resulting in what became known as the Great Awakening. This religious movement placed increased focus on the individual and relied heavily on emotional sermons to encourage a deeper connection to Christ. While many saw the Great Awakening as a powerful‚ religious movement encompassing the ordinary classes of society‚ there were some discrepancies
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When the Great Awakening happened that was the cause for the rebuilding of a new city. Even the nation became unified due to the movement that was used to bring lost souls to god. A man named George Whitefield contributed to the unity‚ his preachings brought a lot of
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2nd Great Awakening: 1820-1859 People: Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)‚ whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York’s upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney’s brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister‚ then was expelled from the church after
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In the early nineteenth century‚ African Americans were involved in the "Second Awakening". They met in camp meetings and sang without any hymnbook. Spontaneous songs were composed on the spot. They were called "spiritual songs and the term "sperichil" (spiritual) appeared for the first time in the book "Slave Songs of The United States".The negro spirituals "The Gospel Train" and "Swing low‚ sweet chariot" which directly refer to the Underground Railroad‚ an informal organization who helped many
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Events Leading Up to the American Revolutionary War Great Awakening (1730s-1740s) The Great Awakening was a sort of religious revival that swept through the English colonies and was a reaction against the Enlightenment which had started due to the mass of wealth and greed of the church and upper class‚ leading to up to the American Revolution by inspiring an idea of democracy and independence in the colonists. It connected the colonies by a religious bond and made many colonists feel they were equal
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Essay Question: What were the causes of the Great Awakening and to what extent did this intense religious revival affect those who experienced ¡°conversion¡± as well as those who did not? During Europe¡¯s period of Enlightment from 1687-1789‚ new scientific theories and ideas were proposed‚ changing the nature of how the world was looked at and questioned the very fundamentals of religion. The Great Awakening of the 1730s-1740s acted as a direct response to the Enlightment in order to revive the
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The Great Awakening traces back to seventeenth century England‚ where political climate led to a decrease in spirituality. The Puritans had grown in number ever since Charles the Second assumed the throne‚ who had also agreed to join the French to oppose Holland and bring Catholicism back to England. While James the Second was the next king‚ much of the Anglican clergy were accommodating to the new monarchs‚ but they started to gravitate away from the extremes. This gave England a period of superiority
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The first of the Great Awakenings‚ intense widespread revivals led by ministers‚ that resulted in an increase of members and the formation of new denominations‚ began in the 1730’s and proceeded till 1743. Due to the Glorious Revolution of 1688‚ the Church of England became established as the reigning religion of their country. A series of Great Awakenings ensued. This first revival was led by primarily by three men‚ but other ministers preached their same beliefs. The first of these three was Gilbert
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Out With the Old‚ In With the New There were multiple factors that influenced the Great Awakening in the early seventeen hundreds. From 1730 to 1740‚ rebellion spread throughout the colonies causing a major religious warfare between churches. In Contending Voice‚ Hollitz shows us the perspective of two famous preachers that gave the Great Awakening a stir of madness. The “wild‚” “indecent‚” and work of “mad men” revolutionized the way colonist viewed how religion could be so intense frequently
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The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment were two historical events that shaped the thoughts of people and religion in America. The most important factor in both of these events is the common theme of reason behind the movements. The Great Awakening began about the 1930’s and reached its climax ten years later in 1740. What exactly was the Great Awakening? It was a wave of religion revivals sweeping through New England that increased conversions and church membership. The beginnings of the Great
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