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  2. Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Awakening (sometimes known simply as "the Great Awakening") was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. [15]

  3. Second Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious ... Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations ...

  4. Shubal Stearns - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Hannah Heaton - Wikipedia

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    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. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Autobiography

  6. Jonathan Edwards (theologian) - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians.

  7. Charles Grandison Finney - Wikipedia

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    Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was a controversial American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism". [1] Finney rejected much of traditional Reformed theology.

  8. First Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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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 North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.

  9. Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Awakening that started in the 1730s profoundly changed religion in the American colonies. The Presbyterians were divided into "New Sides" and "Old Sides", supporters and opponents, respectively, of the great revival meetings and the fervent preaching that accompanied them. Dickinson was a moderate "New Sider", supporting the revivals ...