The Third Great Awakening & Protestant Reform
The Third Great Awakening The rise of the Social Gospel and protestants seeking a different theological path. Have you walked "In His Steps"? This popular book was written by Charles Sheldon in 1896. The book is about following Jesus Christ's example and then applying Jesus Christ's example to practical social outcomes. If the Second Great Awakening was about reconciling emotional revival meetings with a reasonable faith, then the Third Great Awakening ushered in the idea of the social gospel. The social gospel was a call to social reform, and not just a personal faith. In this, The Third Great Awakening emotionalism become institutionalized into groups like the Relief Society of the Mormon church, The Salvation Army, the Y.M.C.A, N.A.A.C.P., The American Protective Association, and The National Woman Suffrage Association . Some of these organizations were uncomfortably nativist and anti-catholic, but all of them had a goal to reform social prob...