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Day 16. October 9, 2006
Movement 2. Solus Jesus
Lecture 7. Solus Jesus: Jesus and the Second Great Awakening (Part 2)
Lecture 8. Unitarians, Transcendentalists, the Shakers, and Jesus (Part 1)
The Second Great Awakening in the early decades of the 19th century transformed sin from the primordial and inescapable taint of Adam's choice to the redeemable consequence of any individual's choice. Evangelical religion sought to rouse the sinner from sinning, to convert, to have a change of heart. The Romantic Movement offered emotions as the mechanism of conversion and in its Christian incarnations Romanticism focused on the figure and Passion of Jesus. But Unitarians and others criticized the new fervor of Jesus-focused evangelicalism.