First Great Awakening

God for help. The Great Awakening was a religious movement through Protestant Europe, and the American Colonies. It became an evangelistic movement occurring in Germany, Scotland, and England. The movement was a result of the powerful preaching that made people believe they needed their sins to be forgiven by Jesus Christ. The Awakening would soon be the first occurrence to make the American people cast aside their differences and allow for unity to surface. The First Great Awakening jumpstarted…

The Great Awakening was a time period where many religions were approaching revival through the American population under British rule. With religious fermentation sweeping western Europe in the late seventeen hundreds, independent religious practice in the British American colonies was inevitable. The movement was fully ignited by the preachings of George Whitefield. He drew significant crowds of colonists with his emotional sermons to convince people to convert to Calvinism. Colonial ministers…

The term “Great Awakening”, was first created in the mid-1700s. , used to describe the culture of the English and British. Christianity was on a rise and viewed on a large scale of the world. Instead of hearing of religion people began to practice and come up with new rituals and ideas that better helped them portray their belief. It was a time period of gaining personal moral beliefs. The goal was too evangelical and revitalize the religious community. Gombrich described in great detail each…

The first Great Awakening was largely successful because of its ability to inspire even illiterate slaves. However, there were written accounts of the skill and persuasiveness of preachers from the first Great Awakening, such as Benjamin Franklin’s 1739 account of George Whitefield. Many preachers also published letters and even journals. Conflict between imperial…

herd mentality is used within speeches and writing to connect with the audience, and make the audience believe that they would be the odd ones out if they did not agree with the author or the speaker. Both George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards do a great job of using this technique within their sermons. At the end of each sermon the intended audience is left with no choice, but to repent after hearing all the terrible things that God will do to a person about their sins ins life. Both preachers…

In the early 1600s, a group known as the Puritans first sailed to America seeking religious freedom and wishing to purify the church. Puritans believed in strict limitations, predestination, and that even though all men were sinners, God was working in their lives. Eventually, the Age of Enlightenment emerged and drew people away from the church, causing a religious revival known as the Great Awakening. During this time, impassioned preachers gave fiery sermons like, Jonathan Edwards’…

George Whitefield, an Englishman born to a humble inn keeping family, grew up to be a widely known and loved Calvinist priest. Having first been an unmotivated student, the Word of God captivated him and ignited a fire in his bones; a fire that could only be fed and tamed by proclaiming salvation by faith alone all across England and the New World. Yet, every proclaimer of the faith has faced opposition whether it be in the form of renunciation or becoming a martyr. It is a known fact that since…

Jonathan Edwards: A Great Shepherd of Early Colonial Theology and Revivalism Jonathan Edwards (1703-1759) played a historical part in American Christianity as we know it today. He was a notorious religious figure during a time when Congregationalists were determined to adhere to the religious styles of old. His intellectual and theological reason, along with his fervent zeal fueled by the Holy Spirit, makes him one of the greatest evangelistic preachers and apologists of all time. His life,…

Awakening the Sinners to an Angry God When Jonathan Edwards gave his sermon to his congregation in the 1700s, he based it on the ideas of moral behaviors and his ideas of right and wrong. On July 8, 1741, the height of the Great Awakening, Edwards delivered a revival sermon in Enfield, Connecticut, that became the most famous of its kind. Edwards not only gave this sermon once, but he gave it twice to his congregations in order to convert them to Christ. When he gave this sermon for the second…

Jonathan Edwards was revivalist preacher, philosopher and theologian during the 18th century. He had an important role in the religious revival known as “The Great Awakening” that remodel the protestant religion across Europe and British American during the mid-18th century. Edwards was born in 1703 in East Windsor and he was the only son of 11 to William Edwards. At a young age he was interested in scientific, intellectual and spiritual concepts, so he was set aside for ministry. Both his…