"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon that Jonathan Edwards first delivered to his Northampton, Massachusetts congregation in June 1741. The version that is frequently anthologized today is his revision of this sermon, which he delivered on July 8 to another congregation, in Enfield. In this Great Awakening sermon, perhaps the most famous in American history, Edwards advises his listeners to turn away from sin and accept Christ as their Savior, lest they find themselves judged by an "angry god" and doomed to eternal torment in hell. The sermon was so terrifying to the congregation that Edwards was unable to completely finish his delivery.
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In Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", he uses several techniques to cause the audience to want to achieve grace and go to heaven. Jonathan Edwards tri...
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In the short story "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Jonathan Edwards uses techniques such as diction, figurative language, and figures of speech to generate the two tones, condemning at firs...
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The Puritans were extremely religious people, strict, yet simple in their ways. Their beliefs were well expressed in their writings, which ranged from sermons and hymns, to poetry and diaries. Two aut...
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Jonathan Edwards wrote a sermon called, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God during the Puritan Revival, it tells the reader about Edwards's dependency on God. The voice in Edwards sermon is far more ...
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Figurative Language and Its Impact
Jonathan Edwards uses a lot of figurative language in his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. He uses simile, metaphor, and personification in order to c...
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