The Second Great Awakening

Here’s an excerpt from The Second Great Awakening, Stephen Nichols’ contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

Have you seen the signs along the side of the road? The signs that say, “Revival, Coming This Week, Every Night, 7:00 p.m.” It is difficult to think of American Christianity apart from revivals. Historians sometimes divide up American church history by different times of revival or awakening. There’s the First Great Awakening in the 1740s, followed by the Second Great Awakening in the 1800s–1820s, and so on.

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