The Second Great Awakening In Connecticut

Critique of the Traditional Interpretation

Bibliographic Data

ID3839939
AuthorsRichard D Shiels (The Ohio State University Newark, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume49
Issue4
Pages401-415
Publication date1980-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3164815
OpenAlexW2132303193
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

As a doddering old man in 1850, Lyman Beecher told his children about the religious conditions at Yale College fifty-five years earlier. His words have become familiar to students of American religious history. The school had been "in a most ungodly state" when he entered as a student in 1795, he recalled. Its president, Ezra Stiles, had been ineffective as a pastor. Immorality and religious skepticism had been rife. Then Timothy Dwight replaced Stiles as president, and religion revived. Dwight's students embraced evangelical Christianity and followed him into battle against rationalists who challenged orthodoxy and politicians who wanted to separate church and state. Dwight transformed religious life at the college and, together with his students, rejuvenated the congregational churches of New England

Ancient history · Battle · Christianity · History of religions · Immorality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Morality · Orthodoxy · Political science · Religious education · Skepticism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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