Great Awakening

Dr. Christine SearsUA-Huntsville

Talk amongst yourselves…

Here’s your topic:

The Great Awakening was neither “great” nor

an “awakening.”

Discuss.

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1. Changes

2. Reactions and legacies

Church of Christ, Wethersfield, CT, 1761-64

Mrs. Charles Willing by Robert Feke 1746 Winterthur Museum, DE

Jonathan Edwards,Princeton University Collection

George Whitefield

John Wollaston c. 1742, Granger Collection NY

Whitefield Journal published 1749 by Ben Franklin, Library Company of Philadelphia

Gilbert Tennent

Charles Chauncy

Hogarth, “Credulity, Superstition and

Fanaticism,” 1762

So Great Awakening…Great?

An Awakening?

Talk amongst yourselves.

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