... age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gathering up of the ideas of men and the resources of science for a wider human effort. But the contemporary mind did not see it in that light. The failure of the great creative ideas as they had been formulated in the Middle Ages had left human thought for a time destitute of the guidance of creative ideas; even educated and imaginative men saw ... there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. In an interregnum incommoded...

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... than thinking, and trusting the heart rather than the head, people in the Great Awakening relied mainly on their minister to encourage their religious beliefs, and no longer the Bible. The ministers took to more than just preaching to white folk, also spreading the message of God to Native Americans and slaves. With the Great Awakening came the conflict in the religious community, in which the people broke off into two ... groups: those that supported the Great Awakening, the New Lights, and those who opposed it, the Old Lights. The Old Lights, being the orthodox clergymen, questioning ...

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