Was The Great Awakening a highly unified and coordinated religious revival movement.?
Not really. The Great Awakening began with Theodore Frelinghuysen a Dutch Reformed Pastor in New Jersey, he challenged his church to seek a deeper relationship with God. It caught on and he was invited to speak about it in other churches as well in his area. After Frelinghuysen, Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the most famous preacher of this period, began preaching in his church in Northampton. His famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” brought his congregation to repentance and spiritual revival broke out in New England. Then George Whitefield an Evangelist from England began preaching his message here. He made thirteen trips across the Atlantic to preach revival messages to congregations here. His sermons were so powerful and his preaching so popular, it is said he was able to preach to as many as 100,000 people in one service. His voice aided in this ability, the historical record is that he had a booming voice that could be heard at extremely long distances (some say up to
