Original sentence: " Students of Christian revival movements and historians of the church have continued to write scholarly tomes analyzing the Great Awakening.<ref>Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 5-6.Frank Lambert lay the roots of the term not at the feet of secondary promoters, but upon the revival preachers themselves.He contended that the terminology and concept were indeed as old as the eighteenth-century events themselves, but that they existed more as press release than news report—more as an expression of what the preachers hoped would happen than as a realistic description of what did happen.Jon Butler has suggested that both the name and the concept of the "Great Awakening" first arose in the work of nineteenth-century religious historians such as Joseph Tracy.Joseph Conforti has argued that ardent promoters of the eighteenth-century revivalists concocted the Great Awakening tradition.McGlothlin have argued that the Great Awakening was "the key which unlocked the door to the new household of the [American] republic.On the other hand, scholars such as William G.Some scholars have disputed the idea of a "Great Awakening".Something happened to the American religious landscape between 1740 and 1776 to explain these phenomena.The historicity of Edwards, Frelinghuysen, Tennent, and Whitefield is not disputed.The nature of the debate goes less to the nature of the events themselves and more to the manner of their interpretation.The realignment of existing Christian denominations into pro-revival and anti-revival factions during the period is well attested, as is the emergence of new denominational bodies connected to the revival movement
Edited sentence: "  Historian Frank Lambert, following the work of Jon Butler, sees the "awakening" as the hope and declarations of evangelical preachers; such preachers greatly exaggerated the breadth and scope of religious revivalism in the American colonies...The idea of a "Great Awakening" follows the claims of some 18th century preachers, who "constructed the idea of a great and general awakening.The idea of a "Great Awakening" is generally not accepted by scholars , and is popular with conservative US evangelicals such as President George W