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The Fourth Great Awakening is a debated concept that has not received the acceptance of the first three. Advocates such as economist Robert Fogel say it happened in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [21] The Jesus Movement is cited as evidence of this awakening, and it created a shift in church music styles.
The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements.
The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. [1] It was led by William J. Seymour , an African-American preacher . The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
In the end, it is impossible to say empirically what happened at Asbury College in 1970, or in the many great revivals throughout Western history. Or what will underlie any revival to come.
Christian revival is defined as "a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church" [1]. Proponents view revivals as the restoration of the Church to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of moral decline, instigated by God, as opposed to an evangelistic campaign.
Paul Prather: The awakening began with an ordinary, regularly scheduled 10 a.m. chapel service on Feb. 8, but people didn’t leave. They felt what they interpreted as an unusually palpable ...
The Cane Ridge Revival was a large camp meeting that was held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, from August 6 to August 12 or 13, 1801. [1] [2] It was the "[l]argest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening." [3] This camp meeting launched a multitude of smaller camp meetings on the frontier. In turn they stimulated a deeply ...