Chapter 2 From The Great Awakening Analysis

During the 1730s and 1740s the Great Awakening was a religious revival that lead by the Protestants. The main idea of the revivals was to preach a new idea of being reborn which meant that one must except Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. Once that occurred the people in return they will be forever saved and be forgiven for the sins they have committed in the past and the ones they will commit in the future. The text the Itinerants Chapter 2 from the Great Awakening PDF is a great text to read for information on the Great Awakening. The text shows how people like George Whitefield and others like him reshaped the landscape of the religious world.

George Whitefield arrived in the colonies around 1749 to no surprise he was not unknown.

The Anglican ministry accused him of disorderly conduct from the beginning, and the commissary in Charleston, Alexander Garden, went so far as to call Whitefield before an ecclesiastical court. The conservative Presbyterian and Congregational clergy suspected him of enthusiasm, the eighteenth-century word for the belief that impulses and intense feelings were to be followed as, revelations from God. They also criticized him for calling the ministers unconverted and strangers to Christ.” (Itinerants, N.D.). After a brief departure Whitefiled returned to the colonies in 1744 to continue his teachings of the revival , but was met with a less welcome by the ministers. Many them even refused to admission to those of their congregation to see Whitefield. To the dismay of the Ministers though Whitefield was met with resounding love and openness from the people of the colonies eager to hear him speak. Whitefield would return a few more times to the colonies over his lifetime until he passed away in

In the times when Whitefield left the colonies the people were left hungry for more preaching of revival this opened the door to for many believers to step in and fill the void of preacher. Unfortunately for Davenport he came into the Great Awakening around a time where those that opposed the ideas of the Great Awakening and its ideologies had almost had enough with the teachings. When he started preaching in Connecticut all the fears of those who despised the Great Awakening came to fruition when larges crowds gathered joyfully to hear him preach. The anti-revivalist party was less than pleased with Davenports unique style of preaching,” While he attracted huge crowds and won the hearts of many, he put himself at the disposal of enthusiastic impulses and impressions and freely censured the unconverted clergy whose unregenerate condition he claimed unerringly to perceive. In 1742 Connecticut found him guilty of disturbing the peace and, judging him unbalanced, deported him from the colony (No. II). This led Davenport to leave and head to Boston, but when he arrived he was once again met with a cold shoulder and was denied the ability to teach to the pulpits of the New Lights. This led Davenport to be a street preach denouncing the clergy until he was deemed insane and banished back to London. Unfortunately for the