2nd Great Awakening + Reform Movements

The 2nd Great Awakening

By Kim Hartmann

People were good but corrupted by society

Find truth on your own

Embraced romanticism (Emphasis on emotion and self)

transcendentalism

Rejects the Trinity

Grew in New England

Intellectuals favored it

Closely tied to Harvard

unitarianism

Beliefs against christianity

Multiple Choice

Did Unitarianism accept or reject the doctrine of the Trinity

• Accept

• Reject

• Depends on the Unitarian

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favored romanticism and promoted that people could find​

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on their own.

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Transcendentalism

truth

pizza

churches

Romanticism

Constitutionalism

Timothy Dwight becomes the new president of Yale.

Debates Unitarian beliefs.

7 years later 1/3 of students profess faith in Christ.

​​Yale

Led revival in churches in the East.

Often went to pastor-less churches to bring back life to congregations.

Avoided over-emotional gatherings.

​​Asahel Nettleton

Open Ended

Why do you think Asahel Nettleton tried to avoid extreme emotionalism?

(Reference Transcendentalism)

​The Western Frontier

Camp Meetings of hundreds of people pitching tents

Listen to preachers, gather, and sing songs

Social and spiritual events

Thousands gathered at Cane Ridge, Kentucky

Charles Finney

Techniques over Truth

Put more emphasis on teaching techniques than the work of the Holy Spirit

People often responded with great emotion, but without supernatural change

Matthew 13:3-8

" Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. "