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Diminishing respect for the clergy and the first Great Awakening: A study in the antecedents of revival among Massachusetts Congregationalists, 1630-1741.

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Title/Author:	Diminishing respect for the clergy and the first Great Awakening: A study in the antecedents of revival among Massachusetts Congregationalists, 1630-1741./
Author:	Marsh, Roger Alan.
Description:	492 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1268.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-04A.
Subject:	Religion, Clergy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9027784

Diminishing respect for the clergy and the first Great Awakening: A study in the antecedents of revival among Massachusetts Congregationalists, 1630-1741.
Marsh, Roger Alan.

Diminishing respect for the clergy and the first Great Awakening: A study in the antecedents of revival among Massachusetts Congregationalists, 1630-1741. - 492 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1268.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 1990.

This dissertation explores the decline of respect for clergymen among Massachusetts Congregationalists as an explanation for the onset of the Great Awakening of the first half of the eighteenth century. As students of American Christian history have sought to explain these revivals, the concensus is that the Awakening occurred as a consequence of multiple factors: the supernatural intervention of God, declining piety, doctrinal changes, intellectual movements, migration, political structure, social struggles, renewed emphasis upon the sovereignty of God, and revivalistic innovations.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017702
Religion, Clergy.

Diminishing respect for the clergy and the first Great Awakening: A study in the antecedents of revival among Massachusetts Congregationalists, 1630-1741.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the decline of respect for clergymen among Massachusetts Congregationalists as an explanation for the onset of the Great Awakening of the first half of the eighteenth century. As students of American Christian history have sought to explain these revivals, the concensus is that the Awakening occurred as a consequence of multiple factors: the supernatural intervention of God, declining piety, doctrinal changes, intellectual movements, migration, political structure, social struggles, renewed emphasis upon the sovereignty of God, and revivalistic innovations.
520 $a Another item, however, may be added to the list of factors which brought about the Awakening in Massachusetts: diminishing respect for the clergy among Congregationalists. The study proposes that over the first one hundred years of Massachusetts history, the authority of ministers weakened as the respect of the people for them diminished. The paper also argues that as this occurred the people shifted their priorities from piety and spiritual endeavors to materialistic and social interests, resulting in a state of religious and moral declension. Furthermore, as clergymen attempted to direct the attention of the people back to their broken covenant with God, they only grew weary of the ministers' preaching and the formality of the churches. This study proposes, therefore, that by the end of the l600s, an unresolvable impasse had developed between clergy and laity, resulting in an inevitable void of religious leadership and authority.
520 $a Such was the situation when the early eighteenth-century revivals began. In light of these developments, this paper suggests that new expressions of ministerial authority emerged in the form of men whose personalities and methods elicited from many Congregationalists a renewed respect for religion and a fresh zeal toward Christian piety. Specifically, the dissertation asserts that Samuel Danforth, Jonathan Edwards, and George Whitefield performed this function and played a vital role in stirring religious revival in Taunton, Northampton, Boston, and other cities during the first half of the 1700s.
520 $a This study concludes, therefore, that while other explanations for the Awakening are plausible and legitimate, diminishing respect for the clergy is another factor which produced the need for the revivals. Furthermore, the paper explains how erosion of ministerial respect and the appearance of new religious leaders intersects or merges with the other efforts to explain how and why the first Great Awakening took place.
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