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GREAT AWAKENING

The Great Awakening was a religious revival in America between 1734 and 1744, through Massachusetts and Connecticut, induced by the eloquence of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Jonathan Edwards had a parish at Northampton, George Whitefield was an Englishman. Their preaching aroused the greatest religious enthusiasm, and made hundreds of converts. The awakening was looked upon with disfavour in England.
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HALF-WAY COVENANT

The half-way covenant was a concession made on the part of the Church by the New England Synod convened at Northampton in 1657, mainly in order to secure a more facile working in relation to the State. The requirements for church membership were relaxed in order that certain civil privileges might be obtained by those who had neither the ability nor willingness to make profession of religious experience. Such persons were admitted on grounds of baptism, but were still denied the lord's Supper. This half-way covenant aroused much controversy, and was later opposed by Jonathan Edwards and his followers.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS

Jonathan Edwards was an American theologian and metaphysician. He was born in 1703 and died in 1758. He entered Yale College in 1716, and studied until 1722, when he received a license as preacher. In 1723 he was elected a tutor in Yale College, but resigned in 1726 to be ordained as minister at Northampton, Massachusetts After more than twenty-three years of zealous service here he was dismissed by the congregation owing to the severity with which he sought to exercise church discipline. He then went as a missionary among the Indians at Stockbridge, in Massachusetts. Here he composed his famous work on the Freedom of the Will, which appeared in 1754. In 1757 he was chosen president of the college at Princeton, New Jersey, but died shortly afterwards.
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NEW LIGHTS

The New Lights were religions revivalists in Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1734 and for some years later, during the period known as the Great Awakening. The movement was started by Jonathan Edwards and became a wild passion under the ministrations of George Whitefield. The New Lights were so called in contradistinction to the Old Lights, or more conservative churchmen.
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TIMOTHY DWIGHT

Timothy Dwight was an American divine, poet and teacher. He was born in 1752 at Connecticut and died in 1817. His father was Colonel Timothy Dwight, and his mother was a daughter of Jonathan Edwards. He served as chaplain in the revolutionary army. From 1795 until 1817 he was president of Yale College and did much to broaden and advance higher education in the USA.
His Theology (published in 1818) was for long a standard both in Britain and in America.
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