HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Whitefield, Timothy Cutler, Deism
Document Summary
The great awakening is a period of religious revivals that courses through american. It tied authentic religion to something called the new birth , a dramatic personal conversion experience. While still committed to sola scriptura, the awakening emphasized the spoken word (extemporaneous sermons delivered in informal contexts rather than learned sermons delivered in established churches) They placed an emphasis on a direct, popular access to god (rather than mediation through elite, professional clergy) They were aggressively evangelistic- they wanted to change society and they proselytized. Particularly began within the church of jonathan edwards" northampton massachusetts. Church- several young people are alarmed by a recent spate of deaths amongst their peers- conversions begin within the young and spread out to everyone else. Timothy cutler, a non-evangelical anglican that criticized the massachusetts revivals as nothing more than an emotional frenzy .
