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    The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen...
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  • The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves...
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    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...
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  • era of confessionalization followed by Rationalism, Pietism, and the Great Awakenings. Major movements today include Evangelicalism, mainline denominations...
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  • The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and...
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    Connecticut. The preaching of this sermon was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. Like Edwards' other works, it combines vivid imagery of sinners'...
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  • The Fourth Great Awakening was a Christian awakening that some scholars – most notably economic historian Robert Fogel – say took place in the United...
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  • Restorationist groups which were formed during the era of the Second Great Awakening, such as the Christadelphians (Greek: 'Brothers of Christ'), Swedenborgians...
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    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...
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    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...
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