1. Great Awakening
1730s s

2. What was the Great Awakening?
Religious revival movement.
Evangelicalism-- “new birth” is the ultimate religious experience.
Followers accept that they are sinners and ask for salvation.

3. Before the Great Awakening
Before 1730s, most colonies had established religions:
Congregationalists in New England (basically Puritans)
Anglicans in New York and Southern Colonies (same as Church of England)

4. “Old Lights” vs. “New Lights”
Churches that grew as a result of the Great Awakening: Presbyterianism, Methodism, Baptism (“New Lights”)
Great Awakening challenged authority and hierarchy of established churches (“Old Lights:” Congregationalists and Anglicans).
Great Awakening said anyone could be converted or “born again”; you didn’t need traditional church leadership to decide whether or not you belong.

5. Leaders of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards

6. Why was George Whitefield so popular?
Today’s Question:
Why was George Whitefield so popular?