1. Great Awakening
... , 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 ... , Anglicans, and Congregationalists, were left behind. They, who were left behind, were also known as the "Old Lights," as opposed to the converted "New Light." The "Old Lights" were usually es...
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