Awakening And Evangelicalism

Economically, a large amount of money was spent on building new churches and financial aid was given to ministers. Massachusetts was the first colony to tax residents to support the Congressionalist Church. Also, during the Great Awakening, churches were making attempts to return those individuals who roamed away from the church. The Great Awakening was a revival caused by Jonathon Edwards during the enlightenment time period. The purpose of this revival was to inspire communities to become more religiously involved as pastors were feeling distant from god because of the lack of interest in religion at the time. The Great Awakening undermined the Old Clergy and increased both the number and competiveness of churches. Thousands of books were published and sold to bring the churches profit and therefore allowed more money to aid in the churches construction. Socially, religion brought people together. People of the same religion often worked better together which resulted in a stronger and closer community. Schools were developed for children to learn to read the bible and to teach young men leadership. In the New England region, dominance was shown with an impressive number of graduates, greatly excelling the southern colonies. Religion was so vital to these early colonists that it greatly affected social development, schooling, and even various basic rights we take for granted today. In Colonial America, one must have been a member

Answer choice A is incorrect for this question because the Great Awakening brought many evangelist preachers to the colonies to share their religious beliefs to crowds of colonies. These preachings took occurred in many areas of the thirteen colonies. Some of the notable preachers include Johnathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Francis Asbury, and Gilbert Tennent (Library of Congress: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic article). The teachings attracted thousands of colonists at a time- which more than likely brought customers to the local businesses around the preaching areas. Francis Asbury even went over 270,000 miles of colonist land to preach in even the hardest to reach areas. Religious people, including Anglicans, Puritans, Quakers, and some non-denominational splinter groups (textbook, page 108), had a part in governing colonies; which shows religion played a big part in social status and therefore affected all of the colonies. Also, according to the textbook (page 108), the taxes collected from colonist pockets funded official religions; therefore having a religion affected the money of colonies/colonists.

In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed the Cumberland Trail, and in 1783 the Treaty of Paris gave the newly formed United States all lands west to the Mississippi River. With the end of the war, American interest in the West reached a new level of intensity. This second great migration had significant impact on American society. it is clear that this westward movement was a major factor in the nation's subsequent development. And that was certainly the case where American Christianity was concerned. In the wake of the Revolution, churches faced three major tasks: (1) organization (2) reviving vital religion and (3) following the population westward. The future of the Church was contingent on dealing with all three problems. Churches soon recognized that in such a large area, the old parish system--which assumed a town--would not work. Concerns that the West would lapse into barbarism or worse that the Catholic missionaries would reach these people first, created a crisis atmosphere in some quarters. French Catholics had long been active in the Northwest and along the Mississippi. People on the frontier were attracted to those who preached a more emotional faith, and dismissed of the more sophisticated rational faith of the Eastern seaboard. Churches that proved flexible in seeking these

A wave of revivalism swept over the United States during the First Great Awakening that took place between 1734 and 1750. Many people came to accept the Christian faith during this time. This acceptance of the faith and different religious practices were not permanent and “by the end of the 18th century, many educated Americans no longer professed traditional Christian beliefs. In reaction to the secularism of the age, a religious revival spread westward in the first half of the 19th century. This ‘Second Great Awakening’ consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment.” (Outline of American History).

Times were changing and some Americans welcomed contemporary culture, mass entertainment, racial, sexual, and traditions while other frowned upon it. Evangelicals Protestants felt threaten by the old-fashioned values and the upsurge of Catholicism and Judaism due to immigration. Believing that the precise truth of the Bible made the foundation of Christianity, fundamentalists organized a campaign to get rid of modernism in order to battle the new liberties that challenged traditional ethics.

The First Great Awakening- In the 1720’s Church membership was declining as more rational thinking, and scientific advancements were being made. So Puritans like Johnathon Edwards and George Whitefield helped revive religion with new thinking. This awakening

Before mid-seventeen century, people in Americans lived as colonist with established churches. After the King was defeated, members of the Church of England refused to stay loyal to the fallen King. They opted to grow a new church branch in America, the Protestant Church. Religious diversity grew further under the Declaration of Rights that became the open door to guaranteeing religious toleration. Conversely, even after winning and moving toward separation of church and state, many remained using the traditional emotion of the European system that imparts the significance of morality and respect for authority. By the 1800’s many people were ready for a spiritual growth and individual religious diversity. As specified in Liberty University’s

Evangelical Christians believe inspiration of scripture comes from God. Scripture declares that, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be (2 Timothy 3:16-17). In addition, inerrancy declares that scripture remains truthful incessantly. Book of John states “If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35). Furthermore, the bible maintains authority because it’s from God. Scripture claims” Because the Bible is what it is, it can do what it does (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Additionally, inspiration comes from God, which makes the scripture truth, whiling obtain authority.

Amidst the Second Great Revival in the early 19th century, many Americans were inspired to go abroad and preach the word of God . These American Protestants believed that the people of the world needed to be saved and civilized . Most of the missionaries were sent and supported by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The missionaries’ Protestant beliefs and American values were incontestably linked. The missionaries assigned by the ABCFM to the Ottoman Empire soon found that they were forbidden to convert the Muslim majority. They instead focused their attentions on the Christian minorities of the Empire. These groups included the Armenians, Greeks, the Assyrians, and others . The minorities’ way of life shocked the missionaries. The Ottoman peoples lived in a very different manner than the Americans, leading to the natives being considered savages by the missionaries. ABCFM books of the time described the Ottoman Christians as “slow of intellect” and their way of life as “primitive.” The American missionaries’ goal then became to civilize these people and teach them to be good Christians. Their efforts would stretch through the 19th century . The effects of the missionaries’ civilizing attempts arguably affected the Ottomans more than their Christian teachings. The ABCFM missionaries’ sought to enlighten the Ottoman Christians by redefining the role of women, expanding education, and spreading American ideals of progress.

NAE quickly became known as standing for moral and social campaign, and referring to the Bible as the foundation for the American public life policy. That is prevalent in many of evangelicals involved in high level of interaction with the surrounding society and brake the secular system. Ironically, the Protestant evangelical movements in the U.S and the Christian coalition focused their activism mainly on domestic issues that conflicted with the Christian values and beliefs in the late 1970s and the early 1980s with a strong impact on the heart of conservative politics. It is obvious that religious conservatives were central part of the Republican Party and they were becoming the key figures in organization over the country.

There was much social unrest, changing economies, wars, and migration on both side of the Atlantic during the eighteenth century, which might have caused the appeal of evangelical Christianity.

In the video first image of the evangelist holding the sign which said "we're right" struck a chord with me. I remember being in downtown Chicago and hearing and seeing people preaching on the street corners. Jesus is coming back! Get right! Sometimes speaking through megaphones. Most people including myself walked by them, ignored them only hearing only a few words of what was being said. I felt like I was being shouted at. I also like the video described a variety of evangelists from Baker to Dollar. They were are good examples of why some people might view evangelist in a dim light.

Evangelicalism was started from a bigger movement called “The Great Awaking”. Evangelicalism was stared because people did not want to continue with the religion that the pilgrims decided to start off of the Europe. The people that had power in the colonies made people have a license to practice in a certain places, if you were caught preaching outside your given area you could have serious consequences would happen to you. People wanted to be emotional , wanted to have opportunities for social life, but still wanted to have the traditional values part of

Ever since the Second Great Awakening took place, religion became the focal point to spread Christianity all across mankind.

God works in glorious ways, and often in ways that the new believer does not anticipate. It is important to note that this does not happen to just pastors or teachers, but to every follower of Christ. In fact, to be used as an instrument of God should be a yearning, deep inside our hearts, that is thrilling and beyond compare to worldly desires.