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Great Awakening

The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening was characterized by a series of Christian revivals that took place

in British Colonial America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What is revivalism? The

Merriam Webster dictionary defines revivalism as a new presentation or publication of

something old ,a period of renewed religious interest , or an often highly emotional evangelistic

meeting . Revivalism was indeed a new technique used to reintroduce people to God. The Great

Awakening had many causes which were mainly centered around the church and religion. It

spread revivalism into the colonies and left overall results which changed Colonial America

forever.
Before, Puritanism was the major denomination of the New England colonies. The

Puritan theology consisted of three covenants with God. In these covenants of Works, Grace, and

Redemption , the New Englanders believed that they were on earth as a mission fr...

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