Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860)
I. Reviving Religion
a. Church attendance were regular in 1850(3/4 pop)
b. Many relied on Deism (reason rather revelation); rejected original sin, denied Christ's divinity but believed in supreme being that created universe
c. Puritans of the past now-Unitarian faith(New Eng.)
-god existed in only 1 person not in orthodox trinity; stressed goodness of human nature
-belief n free will & salvation through good work; pictured God as loving father
-appealed to intellectuals w/ rationalism & optimism
d. liberalism in relig started in 1800
-tidal wave of spiritual fervor that result prison, church reform, temperance cause, women's movement, abolish slavery
-spread to mass through huge "camp meetings"
-E went to W to Christianize Indians
-Methodists & Baptist stressed personal conversion, demo in church affairs, emotionalism
-Peter Cartwright-best known of "circuit riders"
-Charles Grandison Finney were......
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