The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen...

The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves...

named the Second Great Awakening in the context of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1750s and of the Third Great Awakening of the late 1850s...

Connecticut. The preaching of this sermon was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. Like Edwards' other works, it combines vivid imagery of sinners'...

The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and...

era of confessionalization followed by Rationalism, Pietism, and the Great Awakenings. Major movements today include Evangelicalism, mainline denominations...

The Fourth Great Awakening was a Christian awakening that some scholars – most notably economic historian Robert Fogel – say took place in the United...

Restorationist groups which were formed during the era of the Second Great Awakening, such as the Christadelphians (Greek: 'Brothers of Christ'), Swedenborgians...

Christianity in the 18th century is marked by the First Great Awakening in the Americas, along with the expansion of the Spanish and Portuguese empires...

contributions in the Raritan Valley during the beginnings of the First Great Awakening. Several of his descendants became influential theologians and politicians...

first presbytery, formed the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. UK and USA: Just as with the Protestant Reformation, so also the First Great Awakening...

century, Methodist and Baptist evangelists during the period of the First Great Awakening (c. 1730–1755) encouraged slave owners to free their slaves, in...

Quakers. Unlike the Second Great Awakening that began about 1800 and which reached out to non-believers, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were...

Bible leading to faith. The First Great Awakening led to changes in American colonial society. In New England, the Great Awakening was influential among many...

"The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase "'Me' Decade", a term that...

Methodists were at the root of sparking this new movement during the First Great Awakening. Today, evangelicals are found across many Protestant branches,...

became one of the leaders of the evangelical revival known as the First Great Awakening. His most famous sermon, On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry...

mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton...

encourage repentance especially popular during historical periods of Great Awakening. According to Strong's Concordance, the term translated as "brimstone"...

preached a series of Christian revivals that became part of the First Great Awakening. His methods were controversial, and he engaged in numerous debates...

actions during the First Great Awakening. Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to an old Puritan family. Davenport’s great-grandfather, Reverend...

an important role in shaping American religion and culture. The First Great Awakening of the 18th century marked the rise of evangelical religion in colonial...

and Williams College. The Great Awakening has been called the first truly American event. The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust—Presbyterians...

deserved the place of 'first' Baptist congregation in America. Exact records for both congregations are lacking." The First Great Awakening energized the Baptist...

these churches became Unitarian. The revivalism unleashed by the First Great Awakening was in part a reaction against the Half-Way Covenant. The term Halfway...

through Whitefield's preaching during what historians call the First Great Awakening, in colonial America. After Whitefield's death in 1770, however...

Europe and gave birth to Capitalism. Religious revival, known as the First Great Awakening, swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s...

Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on the 1973 non-fiction book of the same name. Directed by Penny Marshall, it was written for the screen...

1740) were terms first used during the First Great Awakening in British North America to describe those that supported the awakening (New Lights) and...

more plantations worked by African slave labor. Events such as the First Great Awakening (1730s–1750s), would strengthen Protestantism in the South and United...