... their own religious bodies. Another effect of the movement was the realization that communities could comprise a very diverse group of people. After the Great Awakening moved through New England, two groups were left. The New Lights followed a slightly modified Calvinist view and advocated the Awakening, and the Old Lights, who opposed the Awakening, developed into the Unitarians. The Presbyterians also divided into the New Sides and the Old Sides. This showed people that communities ... could exist without uniformity. The First Great Awakening left behind many ideas and effects that .....

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... became very immanent. Men and women alike no longer felt very strongly of a need for conversion. The supporters of the Awakening pointed to the apparent degeneration of Puritan values to explain the need for revival (The Great Awakening, pgs. 1-9). John Whiting of Hartford expressed the sentiment and the need for revival in an election sermon of 1686, saying: Is there not too visible and general a declension; are we not ... , n.pg.). Edwards became known as a revivalist and theologian after publishing "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God," which described the awakening of ...

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... some hope that they would be free or they would escape. Also many slaves continued to believe in their ancestral religions and were not attracted to Christianity. But with the Great Awakening in process, not only did African Americans became Christians, they also influenced white religion. Africans and Christians had similar beliefs. Africans believed in ancestral gods, nature gods, and ... an almighty creator, while Christians believed in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Great Awakening increase black awareness to religion in societies. All churches and religions welcomed black peo...

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... . In many ways, we can contribute many of the United States of America's prosperity to this short period. ESSAY 2: With the Great Awakening, came a disturbance in colonial culture, a competing epidemic known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was essentially the exact opposite of the Great Awakening. It was the growing interest in science and technology. The Enlightenment served as a catalyst for the upcoming American revolution. The Enlightenment played a key role on religion, science ... , its laws, education, religion, and technology were all revolutionized. . These two events wer...

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... 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 the emotionalism of the revivalists, and considered by the "new light" ministers as cold, uninspiring, with the lack of devotion for religion. The "New lights" were those defending the Awakening, encouraging missionary ... work and centers of high learning such as Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth. Th...

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The Great Awakening Just before mid-century the country experienced its first foremost religious revival. The Great Awakening swept the world, as religious power pulsed between England, and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In America, the Awakening signaled the foundation of an encircling evangelicalism, the belief that the spirit of religious practice was the "new birth," stimulated by the preaching of the "Word." It revitalized even as it separated churches. The followers of the Awakening and its ... evangelical force developed into the largest American Protestant denominations...

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... Wind" brought followers into a different state of mind. Often people would fall to the ground in a faint, or cry aloud that they really did feel the power and love of God. These preachers of The Great Awakening made Hell real and vivid, and taught of a vengeful God. The Great Awakening began in the middle colonies in the late 1730's and spread to New England and some areas in ... the south. One of the main preachers of this revival was Johnathan Edwards. He declared that ... , such as George Whitefield and Gilbert Tennent believed and preached in this same way. As a result of The Great ...

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... 's eternal fate. This belief encouraged new thinking and this new thinking was contrary to old religious ideas. The stage was set for a rousing religious revival and it exploded in the 1730s and 1740s. Revivals were what defined the Great Awakening. They stressed interior the experience of salvation and emphasized emotion rather than great learning. People felt they could have spiritual salvation with out ... and public address developed a model which could be applied to a broad range of social, political and religious contexts. Jonathan Edwards was the man that ignited the fire of the G...

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The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a turning point in the life of the American people. Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of land. Although the name is not really what it sounds, the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival; rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations. The awakening altered the way people were educated by adding new universities, their ... identities, and also the way everyone thought of the authorities and how they began ... ...

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... of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. "(Pg 87) Just like Jonathan Edwards, another great spark in the Great Awakening there was George Whitefield. According to the writing of Harry S. Stout, Whitfield used advertising techniques such as appointing Seward with sending letters of Whitefield's arrival or ... being promoted by travels on horseback. (pg 92) Whitefield met an eager public whom responded to the hype immensely. Americans of the early colonies responded to Whitefield's ... work for many reasons, one of whic...

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... new members among those who disapproved of the revival's excesses, while the Baptists made even greater gains from the ranks of radical evangelical converts. The largest single group of churchgoing Americans remained within the Congregationalist and Presbyterian denominations, but they divided internally between advocates and opponents of the Awakening, known respectively as "New Lights" and "Old Lights." The Second Great Awakening in the nineteenth century had to deal with conversion ... .Conversion was a set of clear ideas about the innate sinfulness of humans after Adam's fall, the om...

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... an Angry God" which describes god suspending a sinner over the pit of hell. The early revivals in the Northern colonies inspired convents to become missionaries in the Southern colonies. By the eve of the American Revolution, the evangelical converts accounted for ten percent of church attendees in the South. The Great Awakening in the American colonies was greatly influenced by the ideas of the English. In particular, English preacher, George Whitefield who was ... ordained as a minister of the Church of England, joined other Anglican clergy men, John and Charles Wesley ... ...

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... totally behind the cause, I don't think the Americans could have come out victorious as they did. That is why this pamphlet is so important. It got them the support of the common people to break away from England. Without it, the outcome could have been very different. There is another event that happened before the war. It was called the great awakening. Although it happened before the war it ... had a huge part in preparing the people of the colonies for war. The great Awakening was a sort of religious wild fire that ... when they felt that this was being threatened by England, they ...

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... 's docility, but avoided passages promoting freedom primarily found in the Old Testament. The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using ... emotional strategies rather than ideology to persuade non-believers, and created a more accessible Christianity that the sla...

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... ministers and took his grandfather's place in Northampton, Massachusetts when he died in 1729 (Browning). Although his preaching was received with mixed emotions, the major affect his sermons had on society was America's first great awakening, which sparked religious revival throughout the colonies. It started in Massachusetts with him in 1734, but he eventually drew people from over a hundred miles away (Browning ... ). The Great Awakening affected America in ways unimaginable, as he brought people back to their faith, and changed their outlook on life entirely. His sermon ... Sinners i...

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... of sinners, but actually God is very compassionate and patient with the sinners and loves them more than is implied. Though God is angry, it is merely time before he lets the wicked people fall into hell. The Great Awakening happened because of Jonathan Edwards. He wanted the great things in religion to be understood and affect peoples heart. Jonathan Edwards sermon, "Sinners of in ... the Hands of an Angry God" was the Great Awakening for everyone. He used great enthusiasm in this sermon and it basically ... scared people of God and of hell. This sermon captured the eyes of people who...

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My brothers and sisters, our society today has become corrupted by the lack of people attending church. People have started to question us and trying to present to us with liberal heathen ideas. They believe that the religion is no longer important. Our ancestors would be turning over in their graves right now if they were listening to the ideas that these people are presenting to us. We must learn to work together to let the light of God shine through! If we don't, then we will be allowing this heathen country to take over and soon there won't be any light of God. I am trying to incorporate a...

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... decline, King Philip's war was going on overseas, and fires and crop failures were common occurances. The Great Awakening was born out of these unfortunate circumstances. The Great Awakening created several positive changes in the early American society. The First Amendment was fomed out of the need to seperate Church and state, and religious communication became a focus. Newspapers, pamphlets, and other ... of preaching also arose out of the Great Awakening - one of spontaneous persuasive sermons and rhetoric. Finally, it brought a sense of democracy to the people; the idea that all coul...

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... Adams. This movement helped further separate church and state. Before the Awakening people considered themselves to creatures of the church and state, but after the Awakening they considered the church and state to be creatures of the people. (Kurtz and Hutson 200) Religion was very prevalent in The American Revolution. The new ideas that the Awakening brought to America contributed to the colonist's belief that they should rule themselves. In many colonies ... there were taxes implemented to support one religious denomination. The some colonists did ... ...

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... what has lead this world into a downfall with religion. My father is almost fifty-one years old and grew up in a time in this country when there was a great spiritual awakening and a sensitivity to the things that pertained to God and it seemed like with religion, it didn't matter what you believed there was a sacredness to it. For example in ... than has been known at any previous time since the age of the apostles" (Olmstead, pg. 347)." We have come to time now that we are poised for another great season of awakening and a mighty move of the spirit. This is the man that taught me how ...

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... . My judgment: My judgment is incoherence with that of Marty's, as I believe this new idea of religious expression ought to be spread and greatly highlighted for the American people. This had become a core movement to the Great Awakening, and Marty does an exceptional job at creating Whitefield's stand point in religious freedom of that time. I find Whitefield to be significant in this point ... , or geographic location, as it was in Europe, was shortly sought out of American tradition. Religion choice became the heart of the common movement we all know was the Great Awakening (Marty, pag...

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... Puritanism reached North America with the English settlers who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It remained the dominant religious force in New England throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. This was one of the first forms of expansionism in the US, it was an expansion of religion. Another major impact of expansionism in the US was the First Great Awakening in the 18th century. Which was again ... an expansion of religion in the US, it was a general revival of evangelical religion in the American colonies, which reached its peak in the early 1740s. Local revivals had occurred previously...

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... "America's first great philosopher" (Hatch 143) and, "a significant intellectual"(Dematteis). Edward's became highly regarded through his many sermons and treatises that were shaped by his childhood, education and the time in which he lived. It is because of these same sermons and treatises though, that he also became disregarded and despised by many. Jonathan Edwards" childhood, education, and family ... of at least three hundred people" (Dematteis). Though Edwards consistently produced well versed philosophy, none surpassed those written during the time of the Great Awakening during t...

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... religious leaders. These were one of the first occurrences of the "American way of thinking " when the religious rebels adopted the notion of individualism and religious liberty. Religious Diversity After the American Revolution, officially declaring themselves independent from England, the need to determine America's true identity heightened. In the turn of the 19th century, another revival movement spread through the nation. The Second Great Awakening, like the first, expressed that everyone could ... be saved from damnation through rebirth and led to many reform movements and the bir...

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... Methodists, Jewish and Catholics were tolerated. Eventually some tax supported churches were established. This included the Anglican and Congregation Church but excluded Rhode Island. In the 1730s, an important religious event occurred called the Great Awakening. Many of the colonists were not satisfied and started a big religious revival. All 13 of the colonies were affected as this colony wide mass movement demonstrated their revolt towards Britain ... . The colonists were becoming more American than English with the New World converting into a melting pot. It varied ... ...

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