Third Great Awakening
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| Great Awakenings |
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| First (c. 1730–1760) |
| Second (c. 1800–1830) |
| Third (c. 1850–1900) |
| Fourth (c. 1960–1980) |
The Third Great Awakening was a period of religious activism in American history from the late 1850s to the 1900s. It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong sense of social activism. It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth. The Social Gospel Movement gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement. New groupings emerged, such as the Holiness movement and Nazarene movements, and Christian Science. [1]
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