Awakened From What? Puritan Spirituality Before and After the Great Awakening
The half-century prior to the Great Awakening is generally remembered as a period of spiritual decline and indifference to which the Great Awakening was a welcome remedy. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was truly a time of social and political turmoil. During those decades New Engl...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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NACCC
[2018]
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International congregational journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-34 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Congregational Churches
B Spirituality B Great Awakening B New England B PURITAN theology |
| Summary: | The half-century prior to the Great Awakening is generally remembered as a period of spiritual decline and indifference to which the Great Awakening was a welcome remedy. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was truly a time of social and political turmoil. During those decades New England colonists witnessed the terrible devastation of King Philip's War, witchcraft trials, earthquakes, fires and small pox epidemics. The clergy interpreted these as signs of God's growing displeasure with New England. When the Great Awakening was at its height most clergy saw it as a marvelous work of God's grace. It wasn't very long before many others began to see it as one more sign of divine judgment. Which was it? What difference did the Awakening make in New England? When the excitement of revival subsided how had the original ideals of a Holy Commonwealth and a pure Church been changed for better and for worse? In the aftermath of the Awakening what had New England churches been awakened from, and what new spiritual landscape had they been awakened to?. |
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| ISSN: | 1472-2089 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International congregational journal
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