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Sermons of Raw Emotion: The Great Awakening

Sermons of Raw Emotion: The Great Awakening. Reasons for The Great Awakening Sermons of Raw Emotion The Out Comes of The Awakening. The Great Awakening 1730-1740 gave colonists a shared national religious experience. Reasons for The Great Awakening.

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Sermons of Raw Emotion: The Great Awakening

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  1. Sermons of Raw Emotion: The Great Awakening Reasons for The Great Awakening Sermons of Raw Emotion The Out Comes of The Awakening

  2. The Great Awakening 1730-1740 gave colonists a shared national religious experience

  3. Reasons for The Great Awakening • People felt that religion was dry, dull and distant • Preachers felt that people needed to be concerned with inner emotions as opposed to outward religious behavior • People in New England can read and interrupt the Bible on their own

  4. George Whitefield • Puritan Minster who used raw emotional sermons to reach all classes of colonists • Preached that “good works” and “godly lives” would bring you salvation • Forced to give sermons in open areas (revivals)

  5. Jonathan Edwards a Puritan Minster terrified listeners with his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

  6. Outcomes of the Great Awakening • Birth of deep religious convictions in the colonies • New churches built to accommodate new members • Colleges founded found to train new ministers

  7. Outcomes of the Great Awakening • Encouraged ideas of equality and right to challenge authority • Birth of charity and charitable organizations

  8. The Enlightenment • A movement in the 1700’s that rejected traditional ways of life and looked for a more rational and scientific way to explain the world we live in • It was an emphasis on the sciences and reason to explain things

  9. Enlightenment Arguments • Generally we are good and it our environment that influences us • The use of science and reason could answer life’s mysteries • Science and reason could also answer man’s questions concerning government and himself

  10. Outcomes of the Enlightenment • Great surge of literacy in the colonies • Newspapers and book publications increase • Schools are synonymous with new towns and villages • Deism, God is the great clock maker

  11. Outcomes of the Enlightenment • People are born with natural rights • Government has an obligation to protect those natural rights • Kings have no right to govern people, people empower government

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