jonathan edwards was a leading preacher during the great awakening.
jonathan edwards was a leading preacher during the great awakening.
was a leading preacher during the great awakening?
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the awakenings all resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt and of their need of salvation by christ. some of the influential people during the great awakening were george whitfield, jonathan edwards, and gilbert tennent, and some of the influential groups during the great awakening were the new lights and the old lights. pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the great awakening made religion intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction of personal sin and need for redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality. it brought christianity to african-american slaves and was an apocalyptic event in new england that challenged established authority. it incited rancor and division between old traditionalists who insisted on the continuing importance of ritual and doctrine, and the new revivalists, who encouraged emotional involvement and personal commitment. it had a major impact in reshaping the congregational church, the presbyterian church, the dutch reformed church, and the german reformed denomination, and strengthened the small baptist and methodist denominations. it had little impact on anglicans and quakers. unlike the second great awakening, which began about 1800 and reached out to the unchurched, the first great awakening focused on people who were already church members. it changed their rituals, their piety, and their self-awareness.
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the first great awakening (sometimes great awakening) or the evangelical revival was a series of christian revivals that swept britain and its thirteen colonies between the 1730s and 1740s. the revival movement permanently affected protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion. the great awakening marked the emergence of anglo-american evangelicalism as a trans-denominational movement within the protestant churches. in the united states, the term "great awakening" is most often used, while in the united kingdom, it is referred to as the "evangelical revival".
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