The First Great Awakening

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The First Great Awakening

Rigid

Social Contract

Print Culture

Enlightenment

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Background ... What is the historical context (what's occurring at the same time) as the First Great Awakening?

Rigid

Social Contract

Enlightenment

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How do these historical events help explain the CAUSES of the First Great Awakening?

HOW did religious leaders go about this? ....

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• DEFINED: A widespread religious revival movement
• Swept through the colonies starting around the 1730s and 1740s
• Characteristics...
• Passionate preaching
• Increased church attendance
• Renewed emphasis on personal religious experiences

The Great Awakening

Different methods...

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• Old Lights: Traditional, conservative ministers
• Rejected any form of religious revivals (I.e. didn't love this movement)
• New Lights: Tended to emphasize democratic tendances in the Bible
• So if you were poor, God still loved you

HOW did religious leaders go about this? ....

The preachers of the movement...

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• Nationwide movement that helped to bound society together
• Starting to teach colonists to resist threats to democracy
• Colonies were experiencing gradual Anglicanization BUUUUT, there's a growing frustration with the British

SIGNIFICANCE of the Great Awakening

• Would preach about a vengeful & angry God who was ready to punish human sinfulness
• Attendance was not enough for salavation & they must acknowledge their inherit sinfulness.

• Urged people to turn to God before it was too late.

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Jonathan Edwards

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• Would attacts crowds of upwards to 10,000 people
• Preached that God was all-powerful and that only those who openly progressed their belief would be given grace
• Promoted the idea that people don't need the church or a preacher to have a relationship with God

George Whitefield

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• New denominations grew
• Methodists and Baptists

• Increased church attendance
• Idea of undermining authority of the church ... maybe even authority overseas??

EFFECTS of the Great Awakening

Helpful hints specific to p. 21

Complete practice POEs on p. 21 of study guide

• Remember the expectations for the test on Wednesday

• Oh you don't?! We did discuss it multiple times in class
• Oh you still forgot because you have a million things on your plate ... if only there was something on Canvas to help you ...

Helpful hints for p. 21 of study guide

• You're right ... this prompt doesn't have a second subject
• So yes, brainstorm off of that ONE subject
• DON'T FORGET STEP 4!!!!!!!!!
• You should be taking the terms from your brainstorming AND the skill to create 3 general themes

• Example: Social Contract + Natural Rights + rational thinking = Enlightenment
• Enlightenment CAUSED the Great Awakening
• Evidence = Social contract, natural rights

The new ideas of the Enlightenment are now easier to spread thanks to print culture

• Natural rights: Idea that everyone has fundamental rights (i.e. life, liberty, etc.) and authority can't control those rights
• Social contract: The power to govern in the hands of the people and those people willingly gave over some power to the government, and in turn the government would protect the people's natural rights
• BUUUUTT.... if that authority is doing a poopy job, than you/the people should call said authority out

New ideas = a threat to authority within the church

• Natural rights: Idea that everyone has fundamental rights (i.e. life, liberty, etc.) and authority can't control those rights
• What about those that aren't elect?
• What about those that aren't Christian or don't attend church?

• Social contract: The people have the power to expose corrupt authority
• But "the people" have no authority - the church does! God has authority and gives authority to those in a position of power within the church

• Decrease of church attendance begins to occur
• Religious leaders often attributed the decline in society's growing disillusionment with the increasing dominance of wealth in their culture

Enlightenment = Rational thinking rather than traditional religious thought = THREAT! Emphasis on science and not the Bible concerns the religious leaders

Enlightenment = Rational thinking rather than traditional religious thought Knowledge comes from your senses ... (not the Bible)

Some Christians felt the church was too rigid...so a natural decrease of church attendance begins to occur

Enlightenment ideas from Europe is easier to share with the printing press. #theOGofgoingviral