CHARLES G. FINNEY

• Presbyterian minister in NY
• Called the father of modern Revivalism
• Part of the Protestant Revival Movement(known as the Second Great Awakening
• Also abandoned rational argument and appealed to emotion and fear of damnation(hell-fire)
• "There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience"

Joseph Smith

• Found the Church of Latter Day Saints(Mormon Church)
• Polygamist(marriage with more than 2 partners
• New Zion in Utah (Utopian Association of the Righteous)
• "Let us here observe that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient
• to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation."

William Miller

• An American Baptist Preacher
• Believed in Adventism(the second coming of Jesus Christ)
• "I believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near, even at the door, even within 21 years,
• even on or before 1843."
• Followers known as Millerites

PURPOSE OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

• -second great awakening-
• Arminian; salvation was a matter of choice
• The second coming of Jesus Christ
• Gave women more purpose

PURPOSE OF THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

• -new religious groups-
• Utopian Societies(perfect societies)
• ^^balance political, occupation, and religious influences
• Shakers-celibacy-and-full equality between sexes
• Mormons-founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

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