| dc.description.abstract | The Great Awakening turned the minds of people in the American colonies to religion as never before, but it also stirred great opposition and split apart many established religious institutions. All of the issues and actions that characterized the Great Awakening--separatism, enthusiasm, itineracy, lay-exhorting, disruption of the social order, and questioning the need for a learned ministry-- found full expression at Yale College.
This paper looks at the factors in the history and people of Yale that prepared the school for the Great Awakening. It then explores the various events that occurred on the Yale campus between the first visit of George Whitefield in October 1740, arid his second visit in June 1745. These events lead to the polarization of the faculty and students as they act out the issues of the Great Awakening. | en |
