The Great Awakening Essays - Christianity, Protestantism

The Great Awakening Revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s . Put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. Emphasized logic and reason and stressed the power of the individual to understand the universe based on scientific laws. Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield Religious experience over established church doctrine . New denominations arose or grew in numbers . It unified the American colonies as it spread through numerous preachers and revivals . New way of apprehending God's truth: through the senses "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," delivered in 1741 George Whitefield was known as the "Great Itinerant" because he traveled and preached all around North American and Europe between 1740 and 1770. Revivals led to many conversions and the Great Awakening spread from North America to the European continent. Second Great Awakening Protestant revival movement during the early 19 th began around 1790 The movement quickly spread throughout Kentucky, Tennessee and southern Ohio . Occurred in all parts of the US Led to the reform movements Indirectly led to the civil war Marked an emphasis on personal piety over schooling and theology Transformations in American economics, politics and intellectual culture The Awakening lasted some 50 years These revivals occurred on a scale and with a frequency previously unseen in the United States The numerical success of the Methodists and Baptists lay primarily in their reliance on itinerant preachers