Revival!
By Chase Mesaros
It’s Happening!
Revivalism during the early 19th century is often referred as the Second
Great Awakening.
Revivalism attempted to address the security of a person’s soul to God and
reveal to them the good news that Jesus had rose from the dead to
forgive their sins.
The conditions that created this change was a strong movement of the
Protestant form of Christianity that invoked a person’s free will to
choose God or themselves.
Early Attempts
Earlier reform attempts include the First Great Awakening
More focused on doom and gloom
The Cane Ridge Revival
Led by Barton Stone
Solutions
More inviting form of Christianity
Focused on the spreading Protestant movement
Individual chooses their own path
Education
Equality for all people, including African-Americans
Goals were to go forth and create disciples
Wanted to shake a nation
Important People
Charles G Finney
Informal style, more direct, less formal
Studied law
Aggressive Evangelism, equality for women and African-Americans
Lyman Beecher
Eventually agreed on social reform
Against Catholics and Unitarians
Believed in the Holy Trinity
Lorenzo Dow
Believed to have preached to over a million people
Autobiography second best-selling book in the US
Traveled over 10,000 miles
In Their Own Words….
“A revival may be expected when the christians have a spirit of prayer for a
revival”... Charles G. Finney
“No great advance has been made in science,politics, or religion without
controversy” Lyman Beecher
“You will be damned if you do, and you will be damned if you don’t”
Lorenzo Dow
Societal Responses
Society generally was swept up in the movement
Evangelists drew large crowds
The Bible became the number one bestseller
Baptist, Mormon, and many other factions came to life
Generally Accepted
Some who opposed started their own factions
Splintered the Protestant Whole
Different versions of gospel
Started talk on social reform
Woman and African-Americans included
Achievements
Converted Millions to Christ
Bible became a bestseller
Kick started more attention on social reform
Many interpretations of Christianity
Colleges were soon temples of prayer
Related To…….
Abolitionist movement
Educational Reform
Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
Population Growth
Movements Today
Billy Graham Crusades
Bible study groups
Small groups
Azusa Pacific Revival
Significance
Donald Scott, from the humanities center at Queens College stresses the
Awakening as a social movement that brought about institutional order
as all the religious sects sprang. The different institutions provided more
voice among the lower tier in society and started social reform
movements.
Tony Cauchi suggests that the Revivalism sparked lawless places into Godfearing and welcome places that were completely renewed.
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