In the later part of the 1700s the revival came to the english colonies of nova scotia new brunswick and prince edward island primarily through the efforts of henry alline and his new light movement.
The new lights great awakening.
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The great awakening caused a split between those who followed the evangelical message the new lights and those who rejected it the old lights.
New lights embraced the revivals that spread through the colonies while old lights were suspicious of the revivals and their seeming threat to.
Developing an american.
Indeed the revivals did sometimes lead to excess.
Fundamentally the new lights who believed in new dispensations of divine grace and the old lights who defended.
Blacks and women considered equals within the new light movement challenged established authority.
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.
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.
The old lights vs.
Politics and native relations in the new england colonies.
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The great awakening represented the first time african americans embraced christianity in large numbers.
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.
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.
Since more are awakening we will then jump to the next level of new earth building which is right around the corner.
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.
