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Great Awakening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Awakenings were periods of rapid and dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history, generally recognized as beginning in the 1730s. They have also been described as period...
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Between 1730 and 1745 there swept over the American colonies from Maine to Georgia a religious revival known as the Great Awakening. The revival movement, unlike the earlier doctrine of the Puritans, promised the grace of God to all who could experience a desire for it.
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GREAT AWAKENING, the name given to a remarkable religious revival centring in New England in 1740-1743, but covering all the American colonies in 1740-1750. The word "awakening" in this sense was frequently (and possibly first) used by Jonathan Edwards at the time of the Northampton revival of 1734-1735,
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Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - Great Awakening ... The title Great Awakening is usually applied to the many revivals which occurred in the American colonies between 1725 and 1776. It was spread by wandering preachers who advocated personal responsibility in the interpretation of the Bible, but scholars locate the...
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Christian Defense Fund ... Two Preachers and The Great Awakening ... Edwards was a key figure in American history, because it was his ministry that sparked the Great Awakening in the 1740s. He was the greatest American theologian and an excellent preacher.
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