The Great Awakening

Author : Richard L. Bushman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469600116

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Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the shift in values that has shunted revivals to the sidelines. The very magnitude of the previous revivals is one indication of their importance. Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth. Virtually every New England congregation was touched. It is safe to say that most of the colonists in the 1740s, if not converted themselves, knew someone who was, or at least heard revival preaching. The Awakening was a critical event in the intellectual and ecclesiastical life of the colonies. The colonists' view of the world placed much importance on conversion. Particularly, Calvinist theology viewed the bestowal of divine grace as the most crucial occurrence in human life. Besides assuring admission to God's presence in the hereafter, divine grace prepared a person for a fullness of life on earth. In the 1740s the colonists, in overwhelming numbers, laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. Many experienced the moral transformatoin as promised. In the Awakening the clergy's pleas of half a century came to dramatic fulfillment. Not everyone agreed that God was working in the Awakening. Many believed preachers to be demagogues, stirring up animal spirits. The revival was looked on as an emotional orgy that needlessly disturbed the churches and frustrated the true work of God. But from 1740 to 1745 no other subject received more attention in books and pamphlets. Through the stirring rhetoric of the sermons, theological treatises, and correspondence presented in this collection, readers can vicariously participate in the ecstasy as well as in the rage generated by America's first national revival.

Author : Joseph Tracy
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1377785793

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Author : Frank Lambert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691223995

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Inventing the "Great Awakening" by Frank Lambert Pdf

This book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745). Beginning in the mid-1730s, supporters and opponents of the revival commented on the extraordinary nature of what one observer called the "great ado," with its extemporaneous outdoor preaching, newspaper publicity, and rallies of up to 20,000 participants. Frank Lambert, biographer of Great Awakening leader George Whitefield, offers an overview of this important episode and proposes a new explanation of its origins. The Great Awakening, however dramatic, was nevertheless unnamed until after its occurrence, and its leaders created no doctrine nor organizational structure that would result in a historical record. That lack of documentation has allowed recent scholars to suggest that the movement was "invented" by nineteenth-century historians. Some specialists even think that it was wholly constructed by succeeding generations, who retroactively linked sporadic happenings to fabricate an alleged historic development. Challenging these interpretations, Lambert nevertheless demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented--not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters. Reporting a dramatic meeting in one location in order to encourage gatherings in other places, these men used commercial strategies and newly popular print media to build a revival--one that they also believed to be an "extraordinary work of God." They saw a special meaning in contemporary events, looking for a transatlantic pattern of revival and finding a motive for spiritual rebirth in what they viewed as a moral decline in colonial America and abroad. By examining the texts that these preachers skillfully put together, Lambert shows how they told and retold their revival account to themselves, their followers, and their opponents. His inquiries depict revivals as cultural productions and yield fresh understandings of how believers "spread the word" with whatever technical and social methods seem the most effective.

Author : Anna Grear,David Billier
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781953035097

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The Great Awakening by Anna Grear,David Billier Pdf

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300148251

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In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual’s experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit’s work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.

Author : John Howard Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611477153

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The First Great Awakening by John Howard Smith Pdf

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture. Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : 0300158424

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 4 by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Interpreting the Great Awakening of the 18th century was in large part the work of Jonathan Edwards, whose writings on the subject defined the revival tradition in America. This text demonstrates how Edwards defended the evangelical experience against overheated zealous and rationalistic critics.

Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0226256626

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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism by Robert William Fogel Pdf

Robert William Fogel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1993. "To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information."—The Economist In this broad-thinking and profound piece of history, Robert William Fogel synthesizes an amazing range of data into a bold and intriguing view of America's past and future—one in which the periodic Great Awakenings of religion bring about waves of social reform, the material lives of even the poorest Americans improve steadily, and the nation now stands poised for a renewed burst of egalitarian progress.

Author : Linford D. Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740048

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The Indian Great Awakening by Linford D. Fisher Pdf

This book tells the gripping story of New England's Natives' efforts to reshape their worlds between the 1670s and 1820 as they defended their land rights, welcomed educational opportunities for their children, joined local white churches during the First Great Awakening (1740s), and over time refashioned Christianity for their own purposes.

Author : David Loy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780861713660

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The economic, social and ecological crises of modern times calls for a perspective that can incorporate Buddhist insights and principles such as generosity, loving kindness and wisdom. In "The Great Awakening" Buddhist teachings and Western social analysis meet and form a dynamic Buddhist social theory.

Author : Robert Powell
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : IND:39000004008798

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Robert Powell's The Great Awakening by Robert Powell Pdf

Author : Hormoz Shariat
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781733749053

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Iran's Great Awakening by Hormoz Shariat Pdf

ONE MILLION MUSLIMS TO CHRIST. In the mid 1980’s, Dr. Shariat together with his wife, prayed, “Lord, use us to save Iran!” His passion for Muslims stems, in part, because of the murder of his brother, Hamraz, who was arrested in Iran at the age of sixteen on a minor political charge. After two years in jail, he was executed by firing squad. God showed Hormoz the best way to respond to this tragedy was to dedicate his life to bring one million Muslims to salvation in Christ. Join Dr. Shariat on a journey out of bondage to Islam to freedom in Christ. Learn what the Bible says about Iran and why Iran is just the beginning of something big, eternal, and of historical proportion that is already happening! God said, “I am going to do a great work in Iran and change that nation forever, and I am giving you the honor to be a part of it.”

Author : Joseph Tracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Great Awakening
ISBN : NYPL:33433084127988

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Author : Alan Heimert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597526142

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Religion and the American Mind by Alan Heimert Pdf

Exploring the richness of American thought and experience in the mid-eighteenth century, Alan Heimert develops the intellectual and cultural significance of the religious divisions and debates engendered by one of the most critical episodes in American intellectual history, the Great Awakening of the 1740's. The author's concern throughout is to discover what were the essential issues in a dispute that was not so much a controversy between theologians as a vital competition for the ideological allegiance of the American people. This is not a standard history of any one area of ideas. Mr. Heimert's sources include nearly everything published in America from 1735. His study, in its range and conception, is an original contribution to an understanding of the relationship between colonial religious thought and the evolution of American history.

Author : Barry Hankins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802863898

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Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America by Barry Hankins Pdf

Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) was probably the single greatest intellectual influence on young evangelicals of the 1960s and '70s. He was cultural critic, popular mentor, political activist, Christian apologist, founder of L'Abri, and the author of over twenty books and two important films. It is impossible to understand the intellectual world of contemporary evangelicalism apart from Francis Schaeffer.Barry Hankins has written a critical but appreciative biography that explains how Schaeffer was shaped by the contexts of his life -- from young fundamentalist pastor in America, to greatly admired mentor, to lecturer and activist who encouraged world-wary evangelicals to engage the culture around them. Drawing extensively from primary sources, including personal interviews, Hankins paints a picture of a complex, sometimes flawed, but ultimately prophetic figure in American evangelicalism and beyond.