Great Awakening 1730-1755

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The Great Awakening

• Peaked between 1730s and 1740s
• The Awakening was started in Northampton,
  Massachusetts, by
  __________________________. 
• Faith in God, not through doing good works ?
  salvation
• He had an alive-style of preaching ? emotion
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• _____________________________ gave America a
  different kind of enthusiastic type of
  preaching. 
• ___________________, orthodox clergymen, were
  skeptical of the new ways of preaching
• ___________________, defended the Awakening for
  its role in revitalizing American religion
• Emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality
• Undermined older clergy
• Many new denominations grew and greatly increased
  the numbers and the competitiveness of American
  churches

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The Great Itinerant

• Appealed to emotion
• Traveled through all colonies
• First nationally known figure in colonies

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George Whitefield Preaching
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George Whitefield Preaching
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Franklin and Whitefield
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Puritan Sermons

• Parts of a Sermon
• Laying open the text
• Grammatical meaning
• Logical meaning
• Figurative meaning
• Doctrine
• Partition and division of the topic
• Collects profitable points of Scripture
• Reasons
• Demonstration of the truth of the doctrine
• Leads to rational conviction
• D. Application
• Epilogue
• Magnifies arguments
• Leaves listener well-disposed, refreshed, and
  stimulated to further action

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Dominant Denominations

• About of colonists were members of a
  church
• Two established, or tax-supported, churches by
  1775
• (South) and
  (New England)
• Anglican (C.O.E.) was official in GA, NC, SC, VA,
  MD, and a part of NY.
• Anglican church was less frightening and more
  lenient on amusement
• The College of William and Mary was founded in
  1693 to train a better class of clerics for the
  Anglican Church
• Church had grown out
  of the Puritan Church
• Formally established in all the New England
  colonies except independent minded RI
• Religious toleration
• In general, people could worship or not worship
  as they pleased