Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Jonathan Edwards's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses powerful imagery to instill fear and encourage repentance. Key images include God holding sinners over a fiery pit by a slender...

Jonathan Edwards employs various rhetorical strategies to persuade his audience to join the Great Awakening. He primarily uses fear, emphasizing the imminent danger of eternal damnation to compel...

Edwards's use of anaphora in his sermon is a rhetorical device used to underscore the importance of his message and to emphasize his points. It also lends a Biblical tone to his speech.

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards uses intense emotional appeals to evoke fear and remorse among his listeners. He vividly describes the horrors awaiting sinners,...

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards assumes his audience fears eternal damnation, believes in the absolute sovereignty of God, and misunderstands the urgency of repentance. He uses...

Pathos in Edwards's sermon primarily serves to evoke fear among listeners about the consequences of sin, aiming to emotionally engage them. Biblical allusions enhance this emotional appeal by lending...

I think using fear to motivate can be effective, but only if the audience is receptive to grace. Edwards' sermon was almost like a story: - The inciting incident at the beginning when he describes...