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Great Awakening
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The Great Awakening of 1735-1745 was a reaction to a decline in piety and a negligence of morals within the Congregational Churches of New England. (Gaustad 12) Although the Great Awakening encouraged conversions and an increase in church membership, it also provoked conflicts and divisions within the established church. As the movement became more extreme and emotions less restrained, the following groups which emerged from a difference in opinions concerning the Awakening led to the decline of the revival in Connecticut. ... (Gaustad 64) The Great Awakening decreased around 1745 because proponents could not sustain enthusiasm, while the government of the colony began regulating itinerant preaching and persecuting New Light supporters of the Awakening. ... (Goen 31) The New Light clergy, on the other hand, supported the veracity of the Awakening and the effusion of the Holy Spirit, but cautioned radicals against enthusiasm and Arminianism, belief in justification through works. (Gaustad 58) The inherent radicalism of the Great Awakening, therefore, divided both the congregations and the established clergy into two distinct factions. ... (Goen 37) Until the Great Awakening sparked divisions within the churches, the Congregational Church of Connecticut monopolized the religious life of the colonists. ... (Heimert 365) Separatists Elisha and Solomon Paine, who were influenced by the revival in 1721, aspired to establish a school for lay exhorters during the climax of the Awakening in 1740-1741.
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Title: Great Awakening
Words: 1055
Rating: None
Pages: 4.2
submitted by: argetni
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