The Great Awakening A Colonial Source to U. S. Identity
Books To Read Thomas S. Kidd, Jon Butler, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Rhys Isaac
The Great Awakening Series of Religious Revivals from 1730s through 1760s. Sources—Continental Pietism, Scots-Irish Presbyterianism, Anglo-American Puritanism. Outcomes—protean Evangelicalism; Baptists and Methodists movements. Outcomes—ambiguous challenge to and affirmation of the social and ecclesiastical orders Outcomes—encouraged Democratic tenor in British North America Responses—Anti-revivalists; moderate evangelicals; radical evangelicals
Manifestations Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen ( ) Dutch Calvinist—ministered in New Jersey’s Raritan Valley. emphasized pietism, conversion, repentance, strict moral standards, private devotions, excommunication, and church discipline Brought revivalism to middle colonies and worked closely with Gilbert Tennent.
Manifestations Jonathan Edwards ( ) Northampton, Mass., revival—1734 (reality of sin and sovereignty of God in salvation) “A Narrative of the Surprising Work of God” (1736) “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741) Affirmation of Revivalism
Manifestations George Whitefield ( ) Parish minister in Savannah in 1738 Grand Itinerant (1739) Benjamin Franklin printed his sermons Emphasis on “New Birth” (John 3:1-8) Moderate Calvinism/Revivalism
Manifestations Gilbert Tennent ( ) “On the Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry” Extended the work of the Log College (forerunner of Princeton University) in ministerial education.
Manifestations Samuel Davies ( ) Educated in Pennsylvania and licensed to preach as a dissenting minister in Virginia Converted many Anglicans to Presbyterianism— emphasis on New Birth Converted slaves in 1750s in Va. Ran afoul of Establishment With Tennent, traveled to England to raise money to bail out the fledgling Princeton University
Freylinghuysen, Edwards, Whitfield, Tennent, Davies