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The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith in 18th Century America

Explore the impact of the Great Awakening, a religious revival movement in colonial America in the 1730s and 1740s. This intellectual revolution emphasized faith in God and emotional preaching, leading to the growth of new denominations and transforming American spirituality.

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The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith in 18th Century America

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  1. Enlightenment • Intellectual movement in mid-to-late 18th century • Influenced by Scientific Revolution (17th c) • Emphasized liberty, republicanism, religious tolerance • Key figures • (John Locke), ,

  2. Great Awakening1730-1755 M.B.C. zzzzzzzzzzzzz Dry timber of the unchurched

  3. The Great Awakening • Peaked between 1730s and 1740s • The Awakening was started in Northampton, Massachusetts, by .  • Faith in God, not through doing good works  salvation • He had an alive-style of preaching  emotion* • “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” • gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching.  • , orthodox clergymen, were skeptical of the new ways of preaching • defended the Awakening for its role in revitalizing American religion • Emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality • Undermined older clergy • Many new denominations grew and greatly increased the numbers and the competitiveness of American churches

  4. The “Great Itinerant” • Appealed to emotion • Traveled through all colonies • First “nationally” known figure in colonies

  5. George Whitefield Preaching

  6. George Whitefield Preaching

  7. Franklin and Whitefield

  8. Puritan Sermons • Parts of a Sermon • Laying open the text • Grammatical meaning • Logical meaning • Figurative meaning • Doctrine • Partition and division of the topic • Collects profitable points of Scripture • Reasons • Demonstration of the truth of the doctrine • Leads to rational conviction • D. Application • Epilogue • Magnifies arguments • Leaves listener well-disposed, refreshed, and stimulated to further action

  9. Dominant Denominations • About ¾ of colonists were members of a church • Two established, or tax-supported, churches by 1775: • (South)and (New England) • Anglican (C.O.E.) was official in GA, NC, SC, VA, MD, and a part of NY. • Anglican church was less frightening and more lenient on amusement • The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693 to train a better class of clerics for the Anglican Church • Congregational Church had grown out of the Puritan Church • Formally established in all the New England colonies except independent minded RI • Religious toleration • In general, people could worship or not worship as they pleased

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