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Examines The Causes And Results Of A Great Revival Which Attacked Old World Traditions As Out Of Place In Eighteenth-century America. According To The Revivalists, If The New World Were To Fulfill Its Promise As A Land Where God Worked Intimately With A Chosen People, Then Stifling, Time-worn Practices Must Be Reshaped Into Appropriate Instruments For A Vital, Experimental Religion. Eighteenth-century Americans Were Well Aware Of Religious Enthusiasm By The Time Of The Great Awakening In The 1740s. The Churches, Based On Old World Institutions And Customs, Had Played A Central Role In Their Colonial Life. The Proponents Of The Awakening Provoked A Debate Which Not Only Had Far-reaching Effects But Split Most American Colonists Into Two Camps Over Its Fundamental Issue. Was The Revival A Genuine Outpouring Of The Spirit Of God Or Was It Rather A First-rate Example Of Hot-headed Enthusiasm Traditionally Considered False And Presumptuous? Advocates Of The Awakening Were Impatient With The Confines Of Theology And Church Discipline And Sought A More Direct, Intense, And Personal Relationship With God. Its Leaders Recognized The Increasing Influence Of Enlightenment Thought And The Seri

Author

[by] David S. Lovejoy

Publisher

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780137732753

Subjects

Religion, Christian