great awakening dr. christine sears ua-huntsville
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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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