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¶ … great awakening was a religious revival that swept across America in the 1730s to 1740s that saw the restructuring of the society in general within America. For the very first time, this religious revival managed to bring the Native Americans and the blacks into the organized churches as opposed to the prior diverse ways of their worship to their various gods. It also brought the new colonialists into the church to share worship place with the Native Americans and blacks. This was also the very initial time that the religious revival led people to develop interest in education and hence universities like Princeton university and Brown University were established.
In the 1700s, the puritan church had lost its grip on the congregation and the society at large and the membership in the churches was on the decline. The puritan church had a lot of restrictive laws and measure like using the membership to the puritan churches as a measure of qualification to vote. This was however repealed in the new Massachusetts charter of 1691, a charter that also united Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and Maine into a singe royal colony of Massachusetts. This marked more freedom fro the congregation who had the space now to choose the church to belong to (John Winthrop, 2013).
The first group to bring forth this movement was the...
Tennet William who was an immigrant from Scotland, he emphasized on the evangelical conversions through heartfelt preaching. This religious zeal and enthusiasm was soon spread throughout the colonies even to the Puritans and the Baptist of New England.
Come 1740s, the clergymen concerned were already preaching the gospel through large revivals with the very same strategy that Rev. Tennets had previously used. The sermons were emotionally charged with vivid images of the sinful nature of man evoked during the sermons. From the revival meetings and the emotional sermons, many people turned to be missionaries especially to the American South. New York, New Jersey, New England, North Carolina and many other colonies were awash with converts to such religious affiliations and at the even of the American Revolution, there was a significant 10% evangelical converts accounted for the churchgoers in the South.
During this time, many citizens seemed to be doing well materially and hence few cared about what was going on around them or with the neighbors. People had the zeal to have more material wealth and achieve sensual pleasure. This pushed people like Edwards Jonathan, who was a clergyman to focus on personal purity and also commitment to the church. He…
Indeed, the Eastern awakening caused groups and societies to spring up that were characterized by their desire to do missionary work in the United States ("Second Great"). In the Appalachian region, however, the antecedent of the Second Great Awakening was the first and other revivals that had occurred since then. The tone taken in this region was the same evangelistic, camp meeting gospel preached at such events in the past,
Great Awakening in America The Great Awakenings refer to several waves of interest in religion in America. These waves have coincided with increases in economic prosperity and materialism that have caused people to view religion with less interest. It began in the 1930s as disunited attempts at religious revival and in the 1940s had matured into "the remarkable Revival of Religion" (Lambert, p. 6). During the 1740 sThe Great Awakenings aimed
Using Tennents' strategy, the clergymen of Presbyterian, Puritan and Baptist churches were conducting revivals in their regions by the 1740s. Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards stirred up flamboyant and terrifying images of the absolute corruption of the human nature in their emotionally charged sermons. These preachers also described the terrors awaiting the unrepentant in hell in their powerful sermons. Some of the converts from the early revivals in the northern
Great Awakening and the Enlightenment The Great Awakening, was not, as many believe a continuous spiritual awakening or revival in colonial America, instead it was a several revivals in a variety of locations (Matthews). However, The Great Awakening is an appropriate name. The new Americans had found their lives much different from their lives in England. In England the communities were compact, but in America people lived in great expanses
The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons were enormous, and it was matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary influence of his oratory on his hearers (Brannan 1998). Franklin, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and a true Democrat, saw both Whitefield's democratic tendencies and the threat that he posed to the Established Church. He noted that
Great Awakening This is more of a religious awakening that was experienced within the American colonies from the 1730s to the 1770s leading to the independence period. It was a revitalization of the religious groupings and religious movements particularly among American colonies. The movement in America was not in isolation but part of a much wider mass movement that was taking place on the other areas like England, Germany and