2ND GREAT AWAKENING
2nd Great Awakening: 1820-1859
People:
Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York's upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney's brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold.
Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister, then was expelled from the church after the Cane Ridge, Kentucky revival for his stated beliefs in faith as the sole prerequisite for salvation. He became allied with Alexander Campbell, and formed the Restoration Movement.
Alexander Campbell - early leader in the Second Great Awakening of the religious movement that has been referred to as the Restoration Movement, or Stone-Campbell Movement.
Thomas Campbell - was a Presbyterian minister important in the Second Great Awakening of the United States.. Their movement, known as the "Disciples of Christ", merged in 1832 with the similar movement led by Barton W. Stone to form what is now described as the American Restoration Movement.
Ideas:
The Sec Finney's brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. It called for equality among all believers and held that the sins of a neighbor corrupted all. This created an activist kind of Christian, one who sought to convert and to correct all the problems of the world. The greatest social and political significance of this Great Awakening came from the movements associated with it: temperance, moral reform (such as the campaign to end prostitution), and most significantly, abolitionism. The second Great Awakening was a revival of Protestantism in North America.
Utopian Society:
People:
Scottish industrialist Robert Owen bought New Harmony and attempted to form a secular Utopian community there. The group lasted until 1905, making it one of the longest-running
People:
Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York's upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney's brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold.
Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister, then was expelled from the church after the Cane Ridge, Kentucky revival for his stated beliefs in faith as the sole prerequisite for salvation. He became allied with Alexander Campbell, and formed the Restoration Movement.
Alexander Campbell - early leader in the Second Great Awakening of the religious movement that has been referred to as the Restoration Movement, or Stone-Campbell Movement.
Thomas Campbell - was a Presbyterian minister important in the Second Great Awakening of the United States.. Their movement, known as the "Disciples of Christ", merged in 1832 with the similar movement led by Barton W. Stone to form what is now described as the American Restoration Movement.
Ideas:
The Sec Finney's brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. It called for equality among all believers and held that the sins of a neighbor corrupted all. This created an activist kind of Christian, one who sought to convert and to correct all the problems of the world. The greatest social and political significance of this Great Awakening came from the movements associated with it: temperance, moral reform (such as the campaign to end prostitution), and most significantly, abolitionism. The second Great Awakening was a revival of Protestantism in North America.
Utopian Society:
People:
Scottish industrialist Robert Owen bought New Harmony and attempted to form a secular Utopian community there. The group lasted until 1905, making it one of the longest-running