Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Awakening?1. It increased social tensions because ministers criticized certain aspects of colonial society such as commercialism and slavery.2. It involved several denominations, not just congregationalists.3. It's more subdued style of preaching appealed to a wider audience than the older bombastic style employed by the Puritans.4. It was a transatlantic movement and not just an American one.5. It was due in part to concerns among ministers that religious devotion was in decline due to economic growth.

The correct answer is 4

The conditions that pushed Jonathan Edwards to his knees that Sunday were, in fact, very black. The God-fearing generation that originally came to settle in the region was no more. The new generation was quite different. Immorality, debauchery, selfish interests reigned. Few were interested in the life to come. Even those who were still attached to the outward appearances of religion had lost its essence.

The list of church members dwindled more and more. Conditions were so critical in 1662 that the main ministers of the churches in Massachusetts decided to take action to help, but that, on the contrary, made the situation even worse. They adopted something they called the “Mid-Term Alliance”. People who could not confess that they were born again could still take their children to be baptized - as long as they agreed with the doctrinal faith of the church and did not have “scandalous behavior”. When their children grew up, if they too could not testify that they were converted, they would be deprived of only one privilege: participating in the Lord's Supper.

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the bar kochba rebellion (132-135) against the roman empire, also known as the second jewish-roman war, was the second major jewish revolt in judea and the last of the great jewish-roman wars.

after the first jewish-roman war of the years 66-73, the roman authorities took measures to crush any new attempt of rebellion in judea. his political situation was modified and instead of a prefect a governor of praetorian rank was appointed, and in the ruins of jerusalem the seat of a complete roman legion, the legio x fretensis was established.

the political and religious direction of the jewish people was left in the hands of the sanhedrin, with initial headquarters in yavne.

the direct causes of the rebellion vary according to the source. the roman historian dio cassius (155-229) attributes the revolt to the decision of hadrian to found in the place of jerusalem a roman city called aelia capitolina (aelia by its own name and capitolina in honor of the roman god jupiter). on the other hand, the jewish sources, while recognizing this resolution as true, assign higher priority to the decrees dictated by hadrian that forbade the brit milah (circumcision), the respect of the sabbath and the laws of purity in the family.

hadrian's intention was to "civilize" and incorporate the jews once and for all into the greco-roman culture. for greek and roman culture, circumcision was an intolerable mutilation.

the jewish tradition tells in the midrash tanjuma a meeting between rabbi akiva and the governor turnus rufus, where he asked for an explanation about the circumcision.

an additional legion, the legio vi ferrata, moved to the province to maintain order, and work began in the year 131 after the governor of judea, turnus rufus performed the founding ceremony of aelia capitolina. a roman coin with the inscription aelia capitolina was struck in the year 132.

the tannaim rabbi akiva, who without being named nasi directed the sanhedrin, convinced the other members to support the imminent rebellion.

the jewish leaders carefully planned the second rebellion to avoid the numerous errors that had been committed in the first one. in the year 132 the rebellion led by bar kochba quickly expanded from modiim throughout the country, defeating the x roman legion based in jerusalem and destroying the xxii roman legion that had come from egypt.