The Great Awakening

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The Great Awakening

• Mr. Bach
• Accelerated United States History

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Jonathan Edwards

• Educated Congregationalist Minster
• Emphasized the importance of the personal,
  religious experience

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• People are sinful and God would not be afraid to
  cast them down to hell
• People need to take personal responsibility and
  publicly repent
• Solicited highly emotional responses

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Jonathan Edwards
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George Whitefield

• Traveled throughout the colonies and preached in
  an emotional style to widely diverse audiences.
• Open-air revivals
• Reached out to convert the slaves, but supported
  the institution of slavery itself

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Open Air Meetings
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Methodists

• Founded by John Wesley and George Whitefield
• Appealed to slaves, laborers, and poor farmers
• Jesus salvation was for all people
• People must have continual faith to be saved and
  redeemed from sin

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Baptists

• Founded by Roger Williams or Dr. John Clarke
• No control of government and no church hierarchy
• Locally-based beliefs can vary
• Religious freedom and personal interpretation of
  the Bible

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Old Lights vs. New Lights

• The emotional versus the non-emotional
• People need to recognize their own guilt and take
  personal responsibility for their own salvation
• Personal sense of religious guilt and redemption

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Changes to Colonial Religion

• Congregationalism reformed
• Baptism and Methodism strengthened
• Anglicanism and Quakerism largely unaffected

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Lasting Effects of the Great Awakening

• People became passionately involved in their
  religion instead of being passive participants
• People started to study the Bible at home
• New Light Centers Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth
• American nationalism
• A New Egalitarianism

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Legacy