Chapter 13 Flashcards
The combination of widespread religious energy and fervent social idealism brought
Major reforms and advances in human rights during the first half of the 19th century
Christian activists assumed that the US had a
God-mandated virtue to provide the world example of republican virtue
Enlightenment rationalism stressed
Humankind’s inherit goodness rather than its depravity and encouraged a belief in social progress and the promise of individual perfectibility
French revolution increased
Deism
Buy the use of reason deists could
Grasp the natural laws governing the universe
Unitarianism is
The belief that emphasized the oneness and benevolence of a loving God, humankind, and the primacy over religious creeds and organized churches
Unitarians believed Jesus was not
Divine
Universalism was
Founded by John Murray and focuses on the salvation of people, not just a selected few
Anglicanism was on the
Demise
What sparked the Second Great Awakening?
Fears of secularism
Timothy Dwight helped
Spark the Second Great Awakening
What Protestant denominations sparked after SGA?
Baptists and Methodists
What was the main message of SGA?
Salvation is available to everyone
SGA in the frontier had two religious phenomena
The backwoods circuit-riding teacher and the camp meeting
Women especially flocked to
These events
Presbyterianism was entrenched among
The Scots-Irish
The Baptists embraced
A simplicity of doctrine and organization that appealed especially to the rural people
Baptists theology was grounded in the
Infallibility of the Bible and the recognition of human depravity
The Methodists shared with the Baptists that
The belief that everyone could gain an act of free will, established a much more centralized church structrue
Methodists developed
The traveling minister on horseback
The largest camp meetings tended to be
Ecumenical affairs
Dwelling in camp meetings distorts an activity
That offered a redemptive social outlet to isolated rural folk
Evangelical ministers repeatedly applauded the
Spiritual energies of women and affirmed their right to give public witness to the faith
The energies of the revivals helped spread a more
Democratic faith among people
Finney wrestled with the question of
What role can the individual play in earning salvation
Finney’s answer
The sinner must choose salvation by embracing the promises of Jesud
Finney compared bis theatrical methods with those of campaigning
Politicians who used advertising and showmanship to attract attention
Finney organized social reform groups that
Wanted to reform social ills: including alcoholism and slavery
How was the book of mormon discovered?
Reported an angel named Moroni led him to a hillside near his father’s farm and unearthed golden tablets
What did Mormons believe?
No hell, rejected all other dominations, and the Second coming was imminent
In result to the persecution of Mormons,
Moved to Commerce, Illinois
By the end of 1848, the Mormons had developed
An efficient irrigation system and brought greening to the desert
Immanuel Kant
Gave the transatlantic Romantic movement a summary definition in the title of his Critique of Pure Reason. Emphasized the limits of science and reason
Transcendentalism was a reaction against
Calvinist Orthodoxy and the corpse cold rationalism of Unitarianism
What Was the truest piety
A pure form of personal spirituality, which had been corrupted by religion
Harmony with
Nature. Realize divine potential in God’s teachers
Emerson was determined to
Transcend the limitations of inherited conventions and rationalism in order to penetrate the inner recesses of the self