2. The Great Awakening Peaked between 1730s and 1740s
The Awakening was started in Northampton, Massachusetts, by __________________________. 
Faith in God, not through doing good works  salvation
He had an alive-style of preaching  emotion*
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
_____________________________ gave America a different kind of enthusiastic type of preaching. 
___________________, orthodox clergymen, were skeptical of the new ways of preaching
___________________, defended the Awakening for its role in revitalizing American religion
Emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality
Undermined older clergy
Many new denominations grew and greatly increased the numbers and the competitiveness of American churches

3. The “Great Itinerant” Appealed to emotion
Traveled through all colonies
First “nationally” known figure in colonies

4. George Whitefield Preaching

5. George Whitefield Preaching

6. Franklin and Whitefield

7. Puritan Sermons Parts of a Sermon Laying open the text Doctrine
Grammatical meaning
Logical meaning
Figurative meaning
Doctrine
Partition and division of the topic
Collects profitable points of Scripture
Reasons
Demonstration of the truth of the doctrine
Leads to rational conviction
D. Application
Epilogue
Magnifies arguments
Leaves listener well-disposed, refreshed, and stimulated to further action

8. Dominant Denominations
About of colonists were members of a church
Two established, or tax-supported, churches by 1775:
(South) and (New England)
Anglican (C.O.E.) was official in GA, NC, SC, VA, MD, and a part of NY.
Anglican church was less frightening and more lenient on amusement
The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693 to train a better class of clerics for the Anglican Church
Church had grown out of the Puritan Church
Formally established in all the New England colonies except independent minded RI
Religious toleration
In general, people could worship or not worship as they pleased