LEADER 04293nam 2200649 450 001 9910460515603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0011-0 010 $a1-4696-1126-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000448672 035 $a(EBL)4322183 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001599757 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16306711 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001599757 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14892991 035 $a(PQKB)10338312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322183 035 $a(OCoLC)933516555 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48137 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4322183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149892 035 $a(OCoLC)935259700 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000448672 100 $a20160205h19691969 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Great Awakening $edocuments on the revival of religion, 1740-1745 /$fedited by Richard L. Bushman 210 1$aChapel Hill, [North Carolina] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d1969. 210 4$dİ1969 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aDocumentary Problems in Early American History 300 $aReprint. Originally published: New York : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. [by] Atheneum, 1970 311 $a0-8078-4260-5 311 $a0-8078-1181-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- Preparations -- The itinerants -- The new birth -- Trouble in the churches -- Assessments -- New directions. 330 $aMost 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. 410 0$aDocumentary problems in early American history. 606 $aGreat Awakening 606 $aRevivals$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history$yTo 1775 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGreat Awakening. 615 0$aRevivals 676 $a277.4 702 $aBushman$b Richard L. 712 02$aInstitute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460515603321 996 $aThe Great Awakening$92270736 997 $aUNINA