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History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – September 12, 2005  

THE GREAT AWAKENING  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

(From Corrigan & Hudson)

  1. Great Awakening
  2. Scotch-Irish-Presbyterian out door Lord’s Suppers
  3. “Affections”
  4. Theodore Frelinghuysen
  5. William Tennent
  6. Gilbert Tennent
  7. Jonathan Edwards
  8. Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1737)
  9. George Whitefield
  10. G. Tennent, Danger of an Unconverted Ministry (1740)
  11. James Davenport
  12. Charles Chauncey
  13. “Separates”
  14. “Methodist societies”
  15. “Evangelicalism as a revolt against Calvinism” (102)
  16. Some consequences of the Awakening
  17. “denominational concept of the church” (103)

(from Mathisen)  

  1. Wigglesworth, “Essay for Reviving Religion” (1733)
  2. Edwards, “Revival of Religion” (1742)
  3. Chauncey, “Seasonable Thoughts” (1743)
  4. Prince, “Vile Creature” (1744)
  5. “Testimony against Whitefield” (1744)
  6. Bellamy, “Millennium” (1758).

QUESTIONS  

  1. First a descriptive question: what was the “Great Awakening.”  What characteristics do you think were “essential”? 
  2. Second a “causal” question: where did it come from?  Why did it happen?
  3. Finally, an “effect” question: so what?  What consequences flowed from this First Great Awakening?

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