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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which he gave on July 8, 1741, in (then) Enfield, CT (now part of Massachusetts), takes as its text from the Bible "Their foot shall slide in due...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards's theology was rooted in Calvinism, which contains the belief that God chooses some for salvation (the elect) and others for damnation. There is also the belief in a literal hell....
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards was an eighteenth-century New England preacher/writer/theologian whose most famous work is his 1741 sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In it, he memorably compares...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards "fire and brimstone" sermon that caused some of his congregation to run from the church in their awe-filled fear of the Lord and eternal damnation contains several literary...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Reverend Edwards hopes his fire-and-brimstone sermon will frighten and inspire his congregation to become more obedient to the teachings of their Christian faith. In "Sinners in the Hands of an...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
As one of the most influential preachers and instigators of The First Great Awakening, which swept America in a fever of repentance and rededication to a sort of Puritanical Christian doctrine,...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
According to Edwards, those who are spared the wrath of God are the converted. Edwards describes these people as the holy and happy children of the King of kings. They are the fortunate...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Certainly, the rhetoric of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is most associated with pathos. Edwards repeatedly portrays people as inherently sinful, always precariously on the edge of...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards uses the spider's web image as a way of driving home the message that his audience is always just dangling above the fiery pits of hell and that one quick move by God will be...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
For a correct statement of fact, Jonathan Edwards is hardly Puritan, in fact it is perhaps the perfect antithesis of Puritan belief. Puritans, as strict Calvinists, believed that God determined...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards uses threatening, emotionally-charged language to convince the congregation that they "hang by a slender Thread, with the Flames of divine Wrath" waiting beneath to consume them. Recorded...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards employed imagery to describe sinners, condemnation, hell, the devil, and God's wrath for sinners. Here are five examples: 1. Edwards describes sinners as "Heaps of light Chaff before the...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
How did Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" help to reinvigorate Puritanism in the 1740's? Puritanism was a very strict and stringent way of looking at life the was a...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
One Puritan value is the hatred of sin and belief in God's judgment. Much of Edwards's sermon deals with Hell and God's hate of it. Edwards describes a burning Hell of torment in order to urge his...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In Jonathan Edwards’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the concept of divine Justice is personified. Edwards is rather insistent on this point, representing Justice doing and saying...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A Calvinist who believes in predestination, Jonathan Edwards wants his congregation to realize that God controls their fates. His direct statement that propounds his purpose is this: ...there is...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
This question specifically addresses the hypocrisy of the church. It is easy for people to attend a church on Sunday morning. It is much more difficult to live out and practice the tenants preached...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Throughout this sermon, one of the major points that Jonathan Edwards makes over and over again is that God is angry at all people and that all people deserve for God to be angry at them. Edwards...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A simile is a comparison that uses the words 'like' or 'as.' Edwards uses vivid, frightening imagery, including similes, to convey to people the great danger they are in from the wrath of God if...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
His text is persuasive because he uses graphic imagery to describe what happens to sinners who do not accept God's plan of salvation: the eternal judgment of Hell. Edwards's sermon focuses on the...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I am not sure with which excerpt you have been provided, but there are a great many quotations that support the idea that God has ultimate control over the fate of every person. In his fourth...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The majority of Edwards's sermon has a vexed, or perhaps troubled, tone as the Puritan minister preaches at length about God's displeasure with sinners. Edwards uses words such as "destruction" and...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards views of... God: He is the ultimate power who has every right to hold man accountable for sin. Sin makes Him jealous and that causes His wrath. At Edwards' moment of writing, he viewed God...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards was adamant about convincing his congregation to turn from their wicked ways, so much so that I've considered calling this classic sermon "Parishioners in the Hands of an Angry...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Two metaphors (comparisons that do not use like or as) in Edwards's sermon that probably were particularly effective are as follows: The corruption of the heart of the man is immoderate and...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The principal message of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is the sheer precariousness of our spiritual position, which requires drastic and immediate action. Edwards says that we all may die...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
After the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Puritanism waned significantly; therefore, revivalist preachers sought to re-engage Puritans by addressing their intellects and emotions both in order to convince...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards uses a lot of very picturesque, lurid imagery to describe the exquisite torments that await sinners should God choose to consign them to the fiery depths of hell. He tells his terrified...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The basis of Jonathan Edwards' “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is the argument that his audience members should act now before it's too late. Tomorrow might not come if God doesn’t want...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
According to Edwards, healthy, strong members of the town foolishly believe their own strength and abilities can save them from God's wrath. In Edwards's opinion, those who have yet to descend to...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Personification is the attribution of human qualities or traits to something that is not human. Edwards actually uses a great deal of figurative language to compel his audience to heed his warnings...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
For Jonathan Edwards, the concepts of a God that is angry and one that is merciful need not be completely distinct. Because God is omnipotent, all powerful, every decision is in His hands. God can...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In Edwards's "Application" section of the sermon, he gives the following image of the spider: if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Asyndeton is when the writer or speaker omits the conjunctions in a series or list. For example, a normal list might read: I like red, blue, and yellow. If I wanted to use asyndeton, I would...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The main message of Reverend Jonathan Edwards's sermon is to convey to his congregation, and the nation at large, his belief that God's judgment of all sinners will be harsher and more painful than...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In his 1741 sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards paints a vivid picture of the precarious position of those who transgress against God. Speaking of...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In general, Jonathan Edwards uses very angry imagery in his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." The most famous image used is that of a "loathsome insect." He says that God looks at...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Alliteration is the repetition of the sounds at the beginning of words. It is frequently used to add weight and strength to certain words and emphasize thoughts and feelings. The use of repeated...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Taken literally, Edwards makes no generalizations about all people in the first paragraph of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Edwards begins by using an Old Testament verse from Deuteronomy...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In this sermon, Edwards strikes a chord of terror in his audience in order to convince them to accept Christ and therefore avoid the nightmares of Hell. He uses numerous images in order to elicit...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Edwards's sermon is best understood in the context of the so-called Great Awakening, a phrase used to describe the religious revivial that took place throughout the colonies beginning in the 1730s....
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
One of the most effective choices that Edwards makes is his use of the second-person pronoun, "you," and he first does it in the second sentence of the "Application" section of his sermon: "This...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" centers around a sermon that Jonathan Edwards delivered to a group of people who he believed to be complacent and comfortable. He gave the speech to the...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
What a great question! It is also a difficult one to answer with any certainty, but based on his passionate convictions, the truth in his sermons, and his dramatic nature, I would vote for...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
In his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," the Puritan minister, Jonathan Edwards, preaches a fire and brimstone sermon in order to frighten the congregation into being more righteous....
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was a sermon delivered in 1741 by Jonathan Edwards, a theologian of the Congregationalist Protestant sect. The sermon was initially delivered in Massachusetts...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I think that Edwards' tone is repeated because it really never leaves. Edwards makes it clear that there are two overall impressions that Edwards holds in the sermon. The first is that God is...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards gave his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon because he felt a great burden to see unsaved persons turn to Christ, which he believed was the only way to God and eternal...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The primary image that Edwards seems to be railing against is a social order that has lost sight of a Christian or Divine notion of life. At the time of the composition of his sermon, the Colonies...
