The New Lights Great Awakening

New england and middle colonies.

The new lights great awakening.

New lights refers to a specific sect of baptists that emerged during the great awakening of the 1730s and the second great awakening of the early 1800s. The great awakening caused a split between those who followed the evangelical message the new lights and those who rejected it the old lights. Fundamentally the new lights who believed in new dispensations of divine grace and the old lights who defended. Old lights and new lights generally referred to congregationalists and baptists in new england who took different positions on the awakening from the traditional branches of their denominations.

Blacks and women considered equals within the new light movement challenged established authority. During these revivals some converted baptists were named new lights because they believed that god had brought new light into their lives through their emotional conversion experiences. People begin to feel as though religion was dry dull and distant believed the public had fallen asleep piously and needed to be woken up. New lights embraced the revivals that spread through the colonies while old lights were suspicious of the revivals and their seeming threat to.

Yet the tension between those who prefer a more logical approach to religion and those who seek an emotional experience clearly translates into the main divide of the great awakening. Since more are awakening we will then jump to the next level of new earth building which is right around the corner. The old lights vs. The great awakening represented the first time african americans embraced christianity in large numbers.

Indeed the revivals did sometimes lead to excess. Developing an american. This is the currently selected item. Politics and native relations in the new england colonies.

Reasons for the great awakening. These new light baptists were also known as separate. New earth will be the paradise that earth has the potential to be and all that we higher beings of light want it to be.