Traveling preachers and an emphasis on evangelism. Hisal class is about 70 minutes. Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies and were getting into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus on religion in the late colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the e 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on your mind since you have a paper coming up about that. Well give some of the background to religion in the colonial period and then the leadup to the great awakening. Some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening. And then hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen, we have an a image of George Whitfieldn who is the most fam7 preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age. Well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the Background R to what is happening in 18th Century Americabe with regard to re
Founding of the american colonies and were getting now into the 1700s. Today, in this week, im going to focus mostly on religion and the late control colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the 17 thirties and forties. And i know this has been on you alls mind since you have a paper on that coming up. So we are going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period, and then the lead up to the great awakening, some overview of whats happening in the great awakening. And hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield, who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london. Theyre in their 17 thirties, 17 forties, he is the sensation of the age. But well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. And weve talked about some of this already, before, i
Background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age, but well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across the colonies. If you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. And the church of england, of course, is the national Official Church of england, of britain, and most of those colonies adopt what we would call a kind of form
Swept through the colonies. Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age, but well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class abo
Founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age, but well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across