Religious Enthusiasm and the Great Awakening. By David S. Lovejoy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969. ix + 115 pp. $4.25.

John Opie

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Religious Enthusiasm and the Great Awakening. By David S. Lovejoy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969. ix + 115 pp. $4.25.

Church History ◽

10.2307/3163503 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 414-414

Author(s):

John Opie

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Great Awakening ◽

Religious Enthusiasm

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Revivalism and Nativism in the Middle Colonies: The Great Awakening and the Scots Community in East New Jersey

American Quarterly ◽

10.2307/2712607 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 149 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ned Landsman

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Great Awakening ◽

Middle Colonies

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Religious Enthusiasm and the Great Awakening

The New England Quarterly ◽

10.2307/363261 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 328

Author(s):

Edwin S. Gaustad ◽

David S. Lovejoy

Keyword(s):

Great Awakening ◽

Religious Enthusiasm

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Gilbert Tennent, Established “Dissenter”

Church History ◽

10.2307/3167831 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 31-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Janet F. Fishburn

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New Jersey ◽

The United States ◽

Great Awakening ◽

General Assembly ◽

John Wesley ◽

Founding Father ◽

Presbyterian Church ◽

Middle Colonies

Gilbert Tennent (1703–1764), an “Ulster Scot” born the same year as John Wesley, is usually remembered as a leader of revivals during the “Great Awakening” in the middle-colonies. John Witherspoon (1723–1794), a “champion of orthodoxy” from Edinburgh called to be the President of the College of New Jersey, is usually treated as a “founding father” of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. However, many events leading up to the first General Assembly in 1788 reflect the influence of Gilbert Tennet, the moderator of the newly re-united Synods of Philadelphia and New York in 1758.

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