Great Awakening This Is More of a Essay

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Great Awakening

This is more of a religious awakening that was experienced within the American colonies from the 1730s to the 1770s leading to the independence period. It was a revitalization of the religious groupings and religious movements particularly among American colonies. The movement in America was not in isolation but part of a much wider mass movement that was taking place on the other areas like England, Germany and Scotland (Christine L.H., 2013).

Notably this was a movement that was to counter the earlier movement known as the Age of Enlighten which was notable by the rebellious approach to religion and questioning the concept of Christianity among other religions and replacing such religious arguments with logic and science. The Great Awakening was therefore an Age of Faith that rose to counter the logic and scientific view of religion and in the process reaffirms the centrality of religion in the society.
They believed that being religious involved using more of the heart than the head, more of a feeling than thinking and also a total reliance on revelations that emanated fro the Bible than the human reasoning.

The first group to bring forth this movement was the Presbyterian in Pennsylvania and also New Jersey lead by Rev. Tennet William who was an immigrant from Scotland, he emphasized on the evangelical conversions through heartfelt preaching. This religious zeal and enthusiasm was soon spread throughout the colonies even to the Puritans and the Baptist of New England. Come 1740s, the clergymen concerned were already preaching the gospel through large revivals with the very same strategy that Rev. Tennets had previously used. The sermons were emotionally charged with vivid images of the sinful nature of man evoked during the sermons

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