Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Edwards
- First Published: 1741
- Type of Work: Didactic
- Genres: Nonfiction, Didactic literature, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Sin or Original sin, Religion, New England, God, Ministry or ministers, Eighteenth century, Christianity, Preaching, Hell, Puritans or Puritanism
Critical Evaluation:
Jonathan Edwards, a descendant of four generations of Puritan ministers and the most renowned and influential of Puritan leaders, became active when Puritanism was already on the wane. The infamy of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, which sent twenty persons to their death and another 150 to prison, festered in the community for a generation as a tragic episode that had exposed the excesses of misguided Puritan zeal. In the early part of the century, New Englanders enjoyed a rising level of affluence which induced a sense of both material and spiritual...
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