Revivalism and Nativism in the Middle Colonies: The Great Awakening and the Scots Community in East New Jersey

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ned Landsman
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Middle Colonies

Gilbert Tennent, Established “Dissenter”

1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet F. Fishburn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Middle Colonies

Gilbert Tennent (1703–1764), an “Ulster Scot” born the same year as John Wesley, is usually remembered as a leader of revivals during the “Great Awakening” in the middle-colonies. John Witherspoon (1723–1794), a “champion of orthodoxy” from Edinburgh called to be the President of the College of New Jersey, is usually treated as a “founding father” of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. However, many events leading up to the first General Assembly in 1788 reflect the influence of Gilbert Tennet, the moderator of the newly re-united Synods of Philadelphia and New York in 1758.

Another Look at Frelinghuysen and His “Awakening”

1968 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-438
Author(s):  
Herman Harmelink
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Middle Colonies

The extremely favourable assessment by historians of the life and career of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691-c. 1748) as a forerunner of the Great Awakening is a puzzling one to those familiar with the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York. Three works are mostly frequently quoted in making this favourable assessment: Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen by Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen (1938); The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies, by C. H. Maxson (1920); and Eight Memorial Sermons and Historical Notes, by Abraham Messier (1873). Peter Frelinghuysen quotes Maxson and Messier extensively. Maxson quotes Messier extensively.

scholarly journals The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies

1920 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Francis A. Christie ◽  
Charles Hartshorn Maxson
Keyword(s):  
Great Awakening ◽  
Middle Colonies

The Social Roots of Dutch Pietism in the Middle Colonies

1984 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall H. Balmer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
The Social ◽  
Middle Colonies

When Godfridus Dellius, Dutch Reformed minister at Albany, surveyed the religious situation of the Middle Colonies in 1694, he found little to cheer him. In addition to the recent deaths of two colleagues and the political upheaval in New York, Dominie Dellius lamented the intrusion of William Bertholf into the Dutch churches in New Jersey. Bertholf, a cooper by trade, openly flaunted his independence from both the Netherlands ecclesiastical authorities and the orthodox New York clergy. With pietist leanings, Bertholf had ingratiated himself with Dutch communicants on the New Jersey frontier. “He will now not neglect anything to carry out his designs,” Dellius warned, and “soon some marvelous kind of theology will develop here.”

scholarly journals The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies

1920 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Hartshorn Maxson
Keyword(s):  
Great Awakening ◽  
Middle Colonies
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