Great Awakenings

Lain Iwakura

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Assuming this is about the American ones, I think no. That is not to cast judgement on the people who were there or how it impacted their lives or helped them orient towards God in the imperfect lenses of the traditions they received - and hopefully.

The great awakening was not overall an awakening to greater understanding of the truths that the Church has.

You had a lot of empty emotionalism and a lot of very questionable spiritual experiences, some of which were probably demonic, others just emotional phenomenon, and some people probably did 'awaken' in some kind of real way.

You had a political movement towards specific new ethics which would envelop American, some better and some worse...

And you got annoying and impractical traditions like Altar calls where numbers of instant conversions were prioritized over quality discipleship.
 
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