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The Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening

  • During the 18th century, the British Atlantic experienced an explosion of Protestant revival known as the First Great Awakening (the Second Great Awakening occurred in the 19th century).

  • During the First Great Awakening, evangelists came from several denominations of Protestantism.

  • Congregationalists, Anglicans - members of the Church of England - and Presbyterians. They rejected seemingly sterile and formal forms of worship in favor of a strong emotional religion.

  • While Martin Luther and John Calvin preached the doctrines of predestination and Bible reading, new evangelical preachers spread a personal and experiential message of faith that goes beyond mere study of books. Individuals can bring about their own salvation by accepting Christ.

  • This is a particularly welcome message for those who feel excluded from traditional Protestantism.

  • Women, youth, people at the lower end of the social spectrum. The first great awakening caused a schism between those who followed the Gospel message - the New Light - and those who rejected it - the Old Light. dismissed the new revival as chaos.

  • A Protestant revival began in New Jersey, led by a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church named Theodoros Frelinghuysen. Frelinghuysen's example influenced other clergy, including Gilbert Tennent of the Presbyterian Church.

  • Tennant helped revive Presbyterianism in the Middle Colonies, including Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, and established seminaries to train other evangelical ministers.

  • The New Rights also founded colleges in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, which later became Brown University and Dartmouth College.

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Edwards`s best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, used powerful imagery to describe the terrors of hell and the possibilities of avoiding damnation by personal conversion. Image Credit: OpenStaxCollege

These new churches gained converts and competed with older Protestant groups like Anglicans, members of the Church of England; Congregationalists, the heirs of Puritanism in America; and Quakers. The influence of these older Protestant groups, such as the New England Congregationalists, declined because of the Great Awakening. .

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The Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening

  • During the 18th century, the British Atlantic experienced an explosion of Protestant revival known as the First Great Awakening (the Second Great Awakening occurred in the 19th century).

  • During the First Great Awakening, evangelists came from several denominations of Protestantism.

  • Congregationalists, Anglicans - members of the Church of England - and Presbyterians. They rejected seemingly sterile and formal forms of worship in favor of a strong emotional religion.

  • While Martin Luther and John Calvin preached the doctrines of predestination and Bible reading, new evangelical preachers spread a personal and experiential message of faith that goes beyond mere study of books. Individuals can bring about their own salvation by accepting Christ.

  • This is a particularly welcome message for those who feel excluded from traditional Protestantism.

  • Women, youth, people at the lower end of the social spectrum. The first great awakening caused a schism between those who followed the Gospel message - the New Light - and those who rejected it - the Old Light. dismissed the new revival as chaos.

  • A Protestant revival began in New Jersey, led by a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church named Theodoros Frelinghuysen. Frelinghuysen's example influenced other clergy, including Gilbert Tennent of the Presbyterian Church.

  • Tennant helped revive Presbyterianism in the Middle Colonies, including Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, and established seminaries to train other evangelical ministers.

  • The New Rights also founded colleges in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, which later became Brown University and Dartmouth College.

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Edwards`s best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, used powerful imagery to describe the terrors of hell and the possibilities of avoiding damnation by personal conversion. Image Credit: OpenStaxCollege

These new churches gained converts and competed with older Protestant groups like Anglicans, members of the Church of England; Congregationalists, the heirs of Puritanism in America; and Quakers. The influence of these older Protestant groups, such as the New England Congregationalists, declined because of the Great Awakening. .

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