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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 of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical ...
28 January. (2022-01-28) –. 29 January 2022. (2022-01-29) Janet Jackson (stylized as JANET JACKSON.) is a limited-run documentary television series produced by American singer Janet Jackson and her brother Randy Jackson, and directed by Benjamin Hirsch. The series was developed over a period of three years by Rick Murray at Workerbee ...
Second (c. 1790–1840) Third (c. 1855–1930) Fourth (c. 1960–1980) v. t. e. 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 ...
Died. October 7, 1747. (1747-10-07) (aged 59) Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey. Signature. Jonathan Dickinson (April 22, 1688 – October 7, 1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became ...
e. Shubal Stearns (sometimes spelled Shubael; 28 January 1706 – November 20, 1771), was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening. He converted after hearing George Whitefield and planted a Baptist Church in Sandy Creek, Guilford County, North Carolina. [1] Stearns' highly successful ministry was related to the rise and ...
The terms Old Lights and New Lights (among others) are used in Protestant Christian circles to distinguish between two groups who were initially the same, but have come to a disagreement. These terms originated in the early 18th century from a split in theological approach among Calvinist denominations concerning the nature of conversion and ...
1721. Southampton, NY. Died. 1794 [1] Nationality. American. Spouse. Theophilus Heaton Jr. Hannah Heaton was a New England woman known for chronicling in a diary [2] her experiences during the Great Awakening in the northern American royal colonies.
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. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations.