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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Great Awakening"”.
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Perspectives of Pro-revivalism: The Christian History and the Great Awakening
… from 1743-1745 during what is known as the Great Awakening. It contained accounts of revivalism written by pro-revivalist ministers from throughout the American colonies, England and Scotland. These ministers believed that the Holy Spirit was being poured out upon the land in a shower of …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the Preaching of Asahel Nettleton in The Second Great Awakening
… THE PREACHING OF ASAHEL NETTLETON IN THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING Terry Allen Leap, II, PhD. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chairperson: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This dissertation examines the life and ministry of American revivalist Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844) with special …
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The relationship between the "Great Awakening" and the transition from psalmody to hymnody in the New England colonies
… change in eighteenth-century sacred song and the Great Awakening itself, there has been little research that attempts to place the psalmody/hymnody issue within the larger context of the changing theological milieu. This study first examines the theological and ecclesiastical structures which …
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THE EVANGELICAL NEW LIGHT CLERGY OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1741-1755: A TYPOLOGY (GREAT AWAKENING, MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, REVIVAL)
… treatment of New Lights, who emerged during the Great Awakening, as if they were of a monolithic "mind." It counters the oversimplified labeling of mid eighteenth-century evangelicals with a typology that establishes subtle gradations of New Light piety according to appreciable differences in …
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Conversion & Community: Revisiting Modern Protestant Anxieties Over “Pietistic Conversion” in Light of Conversion Narratives From the First Great Awakening
… of twelve conversion narratives from the First Great Awakening in the 18th-century (a period that has proven particularly influential for later protestant ideas about conversion), putting them in conversation with modern protestant theologians, as well as with insights from discussions of …
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Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Regular Baptist Oliver Hart, 1723–1795
… Hart shared the revival spirituality of the Great Awakening, and that revival played a greater role in Regular Baptist identity than is often suggested. Chapter 2 demonstrates that Hart’s life and ministry were profoundly shaped by the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century. He was …
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Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830
… the nation during that time, such as the Second Great Awakening, the market revolution, and the War of 1812. The difficulties of these events necessitated new approaches to life in South Carolina. Over time, the new society spread from the eastern seaboard states across the South, forming the …
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In Search of the Perfect Society: Three Utopian Communities in Nineteenth-Century Amererica
… of religious changes wrought by the Second Great Awakening, the impact of industrialization including the Panic of 1837, and the growth of the women’s rights movement in nineteenth-century America.</p>
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The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition
… on religious antislavery during the Second Great Awakening and the place occupied by the Spring Street congregation as led by three of its antislavery pastors: Samuel H. Cox (1820-1825), Henry G. Ludlow, (1828-1837), and William Patton, (1837-1847). The study argues that Spring Street was a …
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Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859
… century. </p> <p>The progress of the Second Great Awakening and the hardening of racial and gender identities on the American mainland impacted sailors’ perceptions and practice of religion and faith at sea, far more than previous historians have articulated. While the Second Great Awakening …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… over the course of its history, and differs greatly between various groups, the American Dream is a concept which runs deep in the minds of Americans to this day. This project starts the American Dream’s timeline during the Protestant Reformation, then continues on to the Puritans of New …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
… bulk of literature on this region in the Second Great Awakening concentrates on middle class, urban people. This thesis argues that revivalism and evangelical fervor was carried to rural portions of the region by migrants from western New England. Evangelical Christianity and revivalism provided …
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CRIMINAL CASES AT THE ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, 1700 - 1785
… by recent scholars. Other evidence suggests greater sensitivity to deviant behavior during the Great Awakening. The colonial wars and the Revolution also had a noticeable effect on Sessions Court activity.</p><p>This study's extensive collection of tabulated court data is valuable as a …
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The voice of faith: Jonathan Edwards's theology of prayer
… stressful times: his first pastorate, the First Great Awakening, and his dismissal from the church in Northampton. Chapter 4 considers the role of Christ in prayer. The answer to two questions provides the outline for Edwards's Christology: Who is Jesus? and, What is Jesus doing? Chapter 6 …
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Renewing Homeland and Place: Algonquians, Christianity, and Community in Southern New England, 1700-1790
… revivals known generally as the “First Great Awakening,” the adoption of New Light beliefs and practices within Algonquian communities, and the ways in which the Christian faith shaped and informed Algonquian understandings of place and community, and the protection of their lands. …
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The rise of evangelical religion in South Carolina during the eighteenth century
… in this trend until the so-called second Great Awakening at the beginning of the nineteenth century. If, in emphasizing the discontinuities between the intensely religious early national period and the spiritually flabby colonial period, historians have--to one degree or another--tended to …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
… Descartes, and Kant are overviewed. The First Great Awakening was the result of many cultural and theological ideas boiling over simultaneously. People were craving truth, direction, and a sense of authority. The Awakening highlighted the movement of the Holy Spirit theologically and a …
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
… in new national religious fields by the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) and its evangelical fervor. In the eyes of North American missionaries, both countries were religious wildernesses waiting to truly receive and understand the Good Word. Since then, in both Korea and Haiti, …
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A Reappraisal of Religious Experience in Expository Preaching in Light of Jonathan Edwards's Sense of the Heart
… between the Old and the New Light in the First Great Awakening, an uncomfortable phenomenon in expository preaching that polarizes affectionate religious experience and cognitive-propositional truth. It argues that expository preaching should aim at affectional application because application is …
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Retelling the old, old story: a study of six mass evangelistic missions in twentieth-century New Zealand
… British Evangelical Revivals and the American Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. The theological and practical foundations were laid for the development of new approaches and techniques to persuade hearers of their sinfulness and need to become converted to the Christian faith. Although …
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