The great awakening

final exam topic 1

what happened to religion during the great awakening

religion became philosophical and academic enterprise
doubt and wonder in which god is real and which faith is true

Johnathan edwards

American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian.
son of a puritan minister

what did Johnathan Edwards preach

damnation of soul w/out christ
intense focus on one's own sinfulness
Calvinist emphasis on predestination

george whitefield

Englishman who went to America for preaching tours
fanned flame of Edward into blaze of revival
public preaching tours
focus on internal someone dramatic conversion experience

john wesley

oxford educated
failed mission to georgia. then traveled to london

who invited wesley to preach

whitefield
to preach revivals in england
lead to new religious societies

wesleys teaching

connection between god's free grace that appears to someone before they ever choose to believe (aka prevenient grace)
holy living came after choosing to follow christ

who was calvinist

whitefield

why did Weasley send preachers to america

to establish independent american methodist churches

first ordained methodist bishops

francis asbury
thomas coke

how were methodist bishops chosen

chosen by conference of methodist leaders

circuit riders

Methodist ministerial role who arrived in american colonies to spread methodist church

how many protestants were baptist/methodist

2/3 of American protestants

how did American Christianity gain populist flavor

legacy of revivalism and affective religion of heart
american ideas of population sovereign and distrust of traditional authority structures

protestant ideas

priesthood of believer
anticlericalism
perspicuity of scripture reached new heights

how did leaders w/out training without formal training gain large following

democratic act of persecution
the popular appeal of methodists, disciples of christ complexities and mormons

apocalypticism

belief in the imminent end of world
great awakening heightened

millennialism

belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future eternal state of the "World to Come"

william miller

American Baptist minister who is credited with beginning the mid-19th-century North American religious movement known as Millerism.

premillennial dispensationalism

premillennialism is the belief that after a period of severe tribulation of the earth, the Lord Jesus Christ will visibly and bodily return to earth (His Second Coming/Advent or Parousia) and will then rule and reign on the earth for a period of one thousand years (millennium) of peace