Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are looking at what was trending in the 18th century.

And we began at the tail end of the 1600s with Philip Spaner, he was at Halle University in Germany,

and he's considered the founder or the father of pietism.

He was born in 1635 and he died in 1705, and he put a heavy emphasis on individual devotion and piety.

He was followed there at Hala by August Herman Franke in the early 1700s who furthered

pietism's influence.

It would go on to influence the Moravians and at the end of the 1700s we would see pietism

manifesting itself in the Methodist movement.

The second thing trending is English hymnody.

You could say that in the 18th century we went from 0 to 60 with English hymnody.

Isaac Watts first published his hymns and spiritual songs in the year 1707.

Of course, he continued to write hymns the rest of his life,

and then he was joined by the Wesley brothers, John and Charles.

And between the three of them, thousands of hymns were produced over the 18th century,

and many, many hymnals, and many more continue to be published.

The third thing trending is The Great Awakening.

This was a transatlantic phenomenon.

In Old England, it's George Whitfield, and again, the Wesley Brothers.

In New England, it's Jonathan Edwards. You begin to see in the 1720s and 1730s what we're called harvests or revivals.

But by the time we get to 1740, this is again a transatlantic phenomenon.

It is up and down the coast and through all of the American colonies.

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