From Awakening to Secularism

Part III of St. Luke’s Historic Church Summer Lecture Series concludes with “From Awakening to Secularism” on August 6 at noon.

The first Great Awakening is often depicted as having a direct correlation to the American Revolution. However, many of those who crafted America’s founding documents had a jaundiced view of such clerical figures as Jonathan Edwards.

A counter-movement with a more secular bent is what followed that time of high spirituality and experiential religion. St. Luke’s Executive Director, John Ericson, examines the religious movement of the 1740s and its counter-movements in the following decades.