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Gospel of Liberty |
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DVD - Our Price: $16.95 |
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DVD is playable in all regions |
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The Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation (1997) |
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Length: 37 minutes |
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Product # VID184-1 |
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Shipping weight: 5.3
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The revivals of
the Great Awakening shook Britain's North American colonies from
spiritual slumber during the 1730s, 1740s, and 1750s. In Virginia it
touched men and women whose spiritual needs had been too long
neglected by the legally established Anglican church. In homes,
in meetinghouses, and in open fields, rich and poor, black and white,
men and women mingled to hear emotional messages of a personal God and
salvation. The Great Awakening rattled and cracked the foundations of
hierarchical authority and official religion from Georgia to New
England, reverberating through the decades to the Revolution and the
collapse of British rule. |
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Produced by Colonial Williamsburg, the program
recreates for students of American independence the fire of the
Reverend George Whitefield, the zeal of the Reverend Samuel Davies,
and their pursuit of the right to worship according to one's
convictions. With Colonial Williamsburg as a backdrop, Thomas
Jefferson guides viewers to understand how the axiom that government
ought not legislate belief became a fundamental pillar of American
democracy. This tenet found expression in the First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." |
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The insights of Thomas Jefferson, champion of
religious liberty, infuse this dramatic portrayal of colonial Virginia
during the Great Awakening, a turning point in the American concept of
freedom. |
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Here is a lesson of faith in freedom. |
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