Great Awakening

Great Awakening

1. This cause a division in established churches because the people convinced more that the religious experience was individual faith and salvation.

2. After hearing one of Edward’s emotional sermons, they maybe think that is so true that the salvation and the religion was more intimate and was a direct result from God and could not be attained by human works.

3. The effects that the Great Awakening have on colonial society was that served to undermine allegiance to traditional authority.

Great Awakening

• Was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies on 1730s and 1740s.

• Put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience.

• It began at the same time as the Enlightenment.

• Individuals grew to rely more on a personal approach to salvation than church dogma and doctrine.

• It pushed individual religious experience, decreasing the importance and weight of the clergy and the church in many instances.

• New denominations arose or grew in numbers as a result of the emphasis on individual faith and salvation.

First Great Awakening

• Was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion.

• Made religion intensely personal to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption.

• The new styles of sermons and the way people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America.

• People began study the Bible at home.

• During the first decades of the 18th century, in the Connecticut River Valley, a series of local “awakenings” began in the Congregational church with ministers including Jonathan Edwards.

• The first new Congregational Church in the Massachusetts Colony during the great awakening period, was in 1731.

• The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust were: Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists. They became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century.

• The opponents of that were: Anglicans, Quakers and Congregationalists

o Second Great Awakening occurred in 1800 to 1830s.

o The third occurred from the late 1850s to the 20th

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