1. The Great Awakening Religious Revival in Colonial America

3. To THINK Some rights reservedSome rights reserved by Peter FasanoPeter Fasano

4. To FEEL Some rights reservedSome rights reserved by ginnerobotginnerobot

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6. WHY? Photo by Vix_BVix_B

7. A Religious Commonwealth

8. City on a Hill

9. Est. 1636 PURPOSE: Educate and train Puritan ministers

10. “After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government: One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”

11. GOAL ONE: DON’T DIE Photo by Will HartWill Hart

12. GOAL TWO: EDUCATE MINISTERS

13. The first generation died…

14. The next generation got BORED. Photo by Fod TzellosFod Tzellos

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16. REVIVAL

17. FIRE AND BRIMSTONE PREACHING Some rights reservedSome rights reserved by BritanglishmanBritanglishman

18. http://youtu.be/I54wGOSg_BQ?t=3s

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20. G eorge W hitefield English Minister Emotional Appeals

21. “It seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk thro’ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.” -- Benjamin Franklin

22. Evangelical Christianity METHODISM Personal Religious Experience John Wesley (England)

23. Open Air Preaching

24. Itinerancy Methodist ministers are still transferred at regular intervals.

25. Geographic Distribution of Evangelicals Today Source: lausanne.orglausanne.org

26. Jonathan Edwards

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30. E stablishment E ducated E lite Some rights reservedSome rights reserved by dilbert3110dilbert3110 Old Lights

31. Some rights reservedSome rights reserved by dilbert3110dilbert3110 Charles Chauncy Pastor, First Church of Boston Distrusted Emotionalism

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34. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSTeT1fghU

35. Old LightsNew Lights Rational Appeal Emotional Appeal Educated Ministry Converted Ministry Established Classes Dispossessed Classes

36. College of New Jersey Founded by New Light Presbyterians to train ministers (Princeton)

37. PRESIDENT Edwards briefly served as the College of New Jersey’s third president.