Differences And Similarities Between The Great Awakenings And The First Great Awakening

Both Great Awakenings were marked by revivals and emphasis on religious teaching, appealed to emotion, increased women membership in the church, and developed new religious denominations. Unlike the First Great Awakening, the second inspired ideas that people could achieve salvation through individual effort, appealed on emotion that reflected romanticism, and inspired more effort into reforming the church. The various revival movements had several similarities. They all put emphasis on prayer, right action, charismatic expression, personal experience with God and the Holy Spirit, the return of Christ, using the disenfranchised, and to try retrieving the primitive church. The differences between the movements was how they balanced their principles