1. Great Awakening / Enlightenment
Unit II

2. Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
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Objective:
Describe the Christian elements of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment.
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The Enlightenment
The Great Awakening
1. What kind of movement was it (intellectual, social, political, religious)?
2. Who were its key figures in the colonies?
3. What ides did it stress?
4. What did it encourage people to do?
Draw below tables

3. Salvation through repentance Question church authority
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Religious Movement
Protestant
Key Figures
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Ideas
Characterized by a lot of fervor (passion), zealous preachers
Edwards and Whitefield
Stressed individual salvation through repentance – one couldn’t just go to church | question church authority over the individual
New converts were encouraged to attend new church other than the old Puritan churches: Baptist and Methodist churches grow | higher education - new universities founded: Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Dartmouth to train ministers for the rapidly growing churches
Salvation through repentance
Question church authority
Encouraged

4. Intellectual Movement
Enlightenment
John Locke
Intellectual Movement
Science
Key Figures
John Locke
Benjamin Franklin
Ideas
Man should use their reason to gain knowledge of the world and not just religion
Locke was a Christian and his emphasis on reason is very Christian based | Benjamin Franklin believed in the Old and New Testament
The world is not governed by chance but by a fixed set of laws: laws of physics – this does not have to be anti-God | God gave man, created in his own image, inalienable rights that Britain didn’t have to recognize but we still have them
Education | make sure that government protected and did not infringe on individual rights
Laws of Nature
Inalienable Rights
Encouraged

5. Great Awakening and Enlightenment
John Locke Writes
Benjamin Franklin
1700
1776
Great Awakening Begins
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards

6. Great Awakening and Enlightenment
Read the three documents and complete the graphic organizer as you read.
Most of the old Puritan leaders did not like George Whitefield nor Jonathan Edwards because they preached about individual salvation and repentance of sins and undermined the authority of the old ministers.
Therefore, they were highly “wanted.”
Create a wanted poster for Whitefield to show why the old Puritan ministers would want to shut him down.
Use your class notes and the documents to correctly complete the assignment.