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The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening. What was it?. 1740 -1770 = 1,200 new churches across colonies Presbyterian, Baptists, Methodists, & other denominations Highly emotional outdoor revival events “Conversion”. Jonathan Edwards.

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The Great Awakening

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  1. The Great Awakening

  2. What was it? • 1740 -1770 = 1,200 new churches across colonies • Presbyterian, Baptists, Methodists, & other denominations • Highly emotional outdoor revival events • “Conversion”

  3. Jonathan Edwards “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, looks over the fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.”

  4. New Colleges Across the Colonies • 1750s & 1760s = Colleges founded to train ministers • Princeton, Brown University, Rutgers, Dartmouth George Whitfield

  5. George Whitfield • 1739 -1740 = itinerant British minister tours the American colonies • Criticized as a “peddler of divinity”

  6. How did the Great Awakening change American society? • Less hierarchy within the church and society • Northern and Southern colonies connected for the first time • Old Lights vs. New Lights

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