Impacts of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment on Provincial America Although the ideas and concepts of life during the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment periods proved to be drastically different‚ both proved to be influential and shaped America. The Great Awakening was a revival of religion and the Enlightenment was all about understanding science and social structure. The Great Awakening occurred from the 1730’s to the 1740’s. Mainly‚ the cause of the Great Awakening was a decline
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The first Great Awakening was a religious movement among the colonies in the 1730’s and the 1740’s. The movement was needed because of the substantial decrease in the amount of members in the church. The Puritans had "lost its grip" on society. When the New Massachusetts law of 1691 allowed colonial Americans to worship freely and the right to vote‚ colonist were overwhelmed that they discarded what might be in store for them in the future. The Puritans lost faith developing a taste for material
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The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening The Enlightenment‚ also known as the Age of Reason introduced a new spirit of thought and inventive analysis in 17th and 18th century Europe. Theories and ideas that had previously been accepted were now being challenged to be looked upon with an eye of reason rather than tradition. Key leaders in this movement of new thinking included Copernicus‚ Galileo‚ Locke‚ Franklin and Newton. Englishman‚ John Locke‚ was one of whose political works had the greatest
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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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By the mid-18th century‚ the colonies were seeing the emergence of the Great Awakening. This was an immense religious revival that swept across the Protestant world in the 1730s and 1740s. During this time‚ England‚ Scotland‚ Ulster‚ New England‚ the mid-Atlantic colonies‚ and for some time South Carolina‚ responded very well to calls for spiritual rebirth. This so called Great Awakening‚ broke many denominational loyalties in the colonies and allowed the Methodists and the Baptist to rush ahead
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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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an interesting topic and one that can be explored at great depths. Revivals of the past‚ if looked at through the right lens‚ can awaken hope and desire for God to move again‚ even in the darkest times. Revivals show us that God is still very much active and interested in His people. The Father desires that we would know Him as a real Person and who loves to make Himself known through His Son Jesus. I wrote my paper on the First Great Awakening mainly because I am from New England and I have a passion
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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 regarding the way in which it was received
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Evangelical America After 1720‚ two great European cultural movements‚ the Enlightenment‚ which emphasized the power of human reason to understand and shape the world; and pietism‚ and evangelical christian movement that stressed the individual’s personal relationship with God reached America. Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening fostered religious freedom. The Enlightenment underlined individual’s natural rights to choose one’s faith. The Awakening contributed by setting dissenting church
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The Great Awakening (1730s)- In the 1730s‚ ministers were stressed that many people in America were turning away from religion towards science and reasoning‚ thus causing a religious revival in the colonies. Ministers began travelling around the colonies holding large and emotional sermons attracting many people. During these sermons‚ ministers expressed that people could determine their own religion and churches were not essential to understand god‚ reducing the power of churches. The Great Awakening
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