The Great Awakening as Artifact. George Whitefield and the Construction of Intercolonial Revival, 1739-1745

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ID3839780
AuthorsFrank Lambert (0000-0002-1446-2957, Northwestern University, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume60
Issue2
Pages223-246
Publication date1991-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3167527
OpenAlexW2106317097
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

Throughout the 1720s and 1730s evangelical preachers sparked revivals from New England to New Jersey. In his long pastorate at Northampton, Massachusetts, Solomon Stoddard reported five "harvests" of souls in the Connecticut Valley. His grandson Jonathan Edwards succeeded him and led a spiritual awakening in 1734 and 1735 resulting in the "Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton and Neighboring Towns and Villages." In the late 1720s the pietist minister Jacob Frelinghuysen inspired a renewal of piety among the Dutch Reformed in New York. At the same time the Presbyterian evangelists William and Gilbert Tennent reported revivals in the churches they had established between New Brunswick, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York.1While sharing a common message, these evangelical revivals remained local, private affairs, contained within specific geographic and denominational boundaries. Although each proclaimed the necessity of a spiritual new birth and the primacy of divine grace in salvation, theawakenings did not expand into a larger, united movement

Administration (probate law) · Art history · Economic history · George (robot) · Great Awakening · Piety · Political science · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies

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