THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Old Dawn preachers
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New Light preachers
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New Dawn preachers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -During these revivals, some converted Baptists were named “New Lights” because they believed that God had brought new light into their lives through their emotional conversion experiences.
Detailed explanation-2: -The leaders of the Great Awakening, including Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, aimed to revive man’s relationship with God. Their purpose was to convince people that religious power was in their own hands, not the hands of the Church.
Detailed explanation-3: -By about 1742, debate over the Great Awakening had split the New England clergy and many colonists into two groups. Preachers and followers who adopted the new ideas brought forth by the Great Awakening became known as “new lights.” Those who embraced the old-fashioned, traditional church ways were called “old lights.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield both fall under the category of new lights. This created a divide within the church, although the New light movement was much more popular. It eventually even led to the creation of separate churches and universities based on this divide.