The Second Great Awakening (dec 30, 1790 – mar 1, 1840)

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Deism
a conviction that a Supreme Being that had created a knowable universe with moral human beings, but didn’t care or interfere about the human world

Revivals
i. A reaction against religious liberalism
ii.Democratization of religion

Baptists
i.More emphasis on Gods sovereignty
ii.Stronger focus on evangelization

Methodists
i.A strong belief in free will of people
ii.More active in social justice issues

camp meetings
i.Movement of religious revivalism

anxious bench & Charles Grandison Finney
i.The Father of Modern revivalism
ii.Invented the Anxious Bench

circuit rider
i.Traveling and Preaching

First vs Second
i.Both religious revival focusing on personal concession often in mass meetings
ii.Second more focus on social justice reform
iii.More focus on rousing emotionalism
iv.Fist focus on sinful nature, Second focus on goodness
v.More focus on the individual and his good capacities

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