The Origins of Slaveholders' Paternalism: George Whitefield, the Bryan Family, and the Great Awakening in the South

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Gallay
Keyword(s):  
Great Awakening ◽  
The South ◽  
George Whitefield

“The power of religion greatly displayed”

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Eric C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
The South ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Particular Baptist ◽  
The Common ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
Dynamic Series ◽  
George Whitefield

Oliver Hart experienced evangelical conversion at the peak of a dynamic series of revivals known as the Great Awakening. His childhood pastor, Jenkin Jones, publicly supported the evangelist George Whitefield and did all that he could to promote revivalism in Hart’s Particular Baptist congregation. Along with Hart’s personal story, this chapter recounts the Baptist reception of the Great Awakening throughout colonial America, including in New England and in the South. It corrects the common misperception that most Particular Baptists stood aloof from the Great Awakening, and introduces the emergence of the Separate Baptist movement.

scholarly journals The Theological Polemics of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield: Differences in Their Understanding of the "Great Awakening" of the 1740s in New England

2020 ◽  
pp. 162-171
Author(s):  
Irina Yur'evna Khruleva
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
First Great Awakening ◽  
British America ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Ideological Space ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
First Time

The first "Great Awakening" took hold of all British colonies in North America in the 1730s-1750s and developed contemporaneously with the Enlightenment movement, which had a significant impact on all aspects of life in the colonies, influencing religion, politics and ideology. The inhabitants of the colonies, professing different religious views, for the first time experienced a general spiritual upsurge. The colonies had never seen anything like the Great Awakening in scale and degree of influence on society. This was the first movement in American history that was truly intercolonial in nature, contributing to the formation of a single religious and partially ideological space in British America. The beginning of the Great Awakening in British America was instigated by both the colonial traditions of religious renewal (the so-called "revivals") and new ideas coming from Europe, hence this religious movement cannot be understood without considering its European roots nor not taking into account its transatlantic nature. The development of pietism in Holland and Germany and the unfolding of Methodism on the British Isles greatly influenced Protestant theology on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the differences in understanding the nature of the Great Awakening by its two leaders - J. Edwards and J. Whitefield.

“Bringing many souls home to Jesus Christ”

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Eric C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
Ministry Of The Word ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
Erratic Behavior

As the pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church, Oliver Hart established a pattern of moderate revivalist ministry. His weekly routine of public and private ministry of the Word mirrored that of most ministers in the broadly Reformed tradition. Hart invested a significant portion of each week to preparing and delivering sermons, which he developed according to the classic Puritan method. Outside his own congregation, he partnered with evangelical leaders from a variety of other denominations, including the Anglican evangelist George Whitefield, to spread the revivalism of the Great Awakening. Hart gained a wide acceptance among the residents of Charleston in part because of the respectable social persona he developed, in contrast to the erratic behavior of the Separate Baptists and other radical revivalists. Most significant, Hart adopted the classic moderate evangelical approach to slavery while in Charleston, ministering earnestly to enslaved Africans even as he owned slaves himself. Hart’s respectable, moderate revivalism set the tone for the next century and a half for white Baptists in Charleston and the broader South.

“Every day brings fresh wonders!”

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Eric C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Black Woman ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
First Baptist Church ◽  
The South ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
White Girls ◽  
Private Homes

In 1754 Oliver Hart led a revival among the youth of the Charleston Baptist Church which mirrored the awakenings that had been taking place throughout the colonies since the 1730s. Hart kept a careful record of the revival in his personal diary after the pattern of George Whitefield’s Journals, documenting his own revivalist practices, such as preaching in private homes and counseling those who had fallen into sin. The 1754 Charleston revival involved a number of dramatic conversion experiences and exhibited some of the egalitarian tendencies of the Great Awakening, including Hart’s encouragement of public testimony and exhortation of a enslaved black woman to a group of white girls. This revival is also noteworthy for the conversion of Samuel Stillman, who would go on to become the influential pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boston at the time of the American Revolution. The 1754 Charleston revival shows Hart attempting to walk the line of discerning, moderate revivalism in the context of a dynamic awakening. It also demonstrates that a robust revivalism existed among the Regular Baptists of the South before the more famous Separate Baptists arrived in 1755.

Book Review: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening

1973 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-406
Author(s):  
James H. Edmonson
Keyword(s):  
Great Awakening ◽  
George Whitefield
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