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The Enlightenment vs. The Great Awakening

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Dean Burress

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The Enlightenment vs. The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening

  • Many ministers in the 13 colonies were disturbed by colonists' lack of religious activity and church attendance following the Enlightenment.
  • In the 1730s, a religious revival swept through the British American colonies called the Great Awakening as a reaction to the Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment

The Great Awakening

  • In the late 17th century, scientists like Isaac Newton and philosophers like John Locke were challenging the ways of society.
  • Newton described the world in terms of natural laws beyond any spiritual force.
  • Locke asserted the right of a people to change a government that did not protect natural rights of life, liberty and property.
  • George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards were two of the leading ministers of the Great Awakening.
  • Whitefield and Edwards preached of God as mighty, powerful, and wrathful.
  • They wanted people to know what it was like to be at God's mercy.
  • There sermons used guilt and fear to persuade colonists to come back to God.

Effects of the Great Awakening

The Enlightenment

  • Prior to the Great awakening, colonists had just a few churches to choose to attend.
  • The Great Awakening caused the creation of many new churches that we are now familiar with today like:
  • Baptist
  • Methodist
  • Presbyterian
  • This increase in the number of choices for church led to an increased sense of religious freedom and religious tolerance.
  • People were beginning to doubt the existence of a God who could predestine human beings to eternal damnation and empower a tyrant for a king.
  • The old way of life was represented by superstition, an angry God, and absolute submission to authority. The thinkers of the Age of Reason ushered in a new way of thinking. This new way championed the accomplishments of humankind.

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