文档介绍：APUSH - SpiconardiThe Great AwakeningA religious revival movement that spread throughout the colonies from the 1720s-1740sThe Great AwakeningOrigins ?Enlightenment rationalism?Enlightenment corrupted the Anglican Church?But Enlightenment did affect emphasis on the individual?Lack of individual engagement in church services?Rationalization of predestination?“Unchurched” colonists living in the frontiers?Pioneers had lapsed into sinful lives due to influence of “heathen” Indians ?Growing focus mercialism as opposed to religionJonathan Edwards?Massachusetts Congregationalist minister?Pioneered an intensely emotional style of preaching?Noted for his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”?Scared people by describing the torments that awaited sinners in the afterlifeOur people do not so much need to have their heads stored [with new knowledge] as to have their hearts wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock…The God that holds you over the p