04293nam 2200649 450 991046051560332120200520144314.01-4696-0011-01-4696-1126-0(CKB)3710000000448672(EBL)4322183(SSID)ssj0001599757(PQKBManifestationID)16306711(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599757(PQKBWorkID)14892991(PQKB)10338312(MiAaPQ)EBC4322183(OCoLC)933516555(MdBmJHUP)muse48137(Au-PeEL)EBL4322183(CaPaEBR)ebr11149892(OCoLC)935259700(EXLCZ)99371000000044867220160205h19691969 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe Great Awakening documents on the revival of religion, 1740-1745 /edited by Richard L. BushmanChapel Hill, [North Carolina] ;London, [England] :The University of North Carolina Press,1969.©19691 online resource (191 p.)Documentary Problems in Early American HistoryReprint. Originally published: New York : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. [by] Atheneum, 19700-8078-4260-5 0-8078-1181-5 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Preparations -- The itinerants -- The new birth -- Trouble in the churches -- Assessments -- New directions.Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740's. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the shift in values that has shunted revivals to the sidelines. The very magnitude of the previous revivals is one indication of their importance. Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth. Virtually every New England congregation was touched. It is safe to say that most of the colonists in the 1740's, if not converted themselves, knew someone who was, or at least heard revival preaching. The Awakening was a critical event in the intellectual and ecclesiastical life of the colonies. The colonists' view of the world placed much importance on conversion. Particularly, Calvinist theology viewed the bestowal of divine grace as the most crucial occurrence in human life. Besides assuring admission to God's presence in the hereafter, divine grace prepared a person for a fullness of life on earth. In the 1740's the colonists, in overwhelming numbers, laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. Many experienced the moral transformation as promised. In the Awakening the clergy's pleas of half a century came to dramatic fulfillment. Not everyone agreed that God was working in the Awakening. Many believed preachers to be demagogues, stirring up animal spirits. The revival was looked on as an emotional orgy that needlessly disturbed the churches and frustrated the true work of God. But from 1740 to 1745 no other subject received more attention in books and pamphlets. Through the stirring rhetoric of the sermons, theological treatises, and correspondence presented in this collection, readers can vicariously participate in the ecstasy as well as in the rage generated by America's first national revival.Documentary problems in early American history.Great AwakeningRevivalsUnited StatesUnited StatesChurch historyTo 1775Electronic books.Great Awakening.Revivals277.4Bushman Richard L.Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460515603321The Great Awakening2270736UNINA