Summary Of Jonathan Edwards And Justification By Jonathan Edwards

"Salvation" by Langston Hughes is an Essay written about the pressures young adults can face in their lifetime. It represented the life of a young boy and the pressures he received to accept Christ into his life. The story reflected lies, sarcasm, and hypocrisy from his peers, his family, both immediate and church. This young boy was told that Jesus would come to him, he would “See” Jesus, he would know. He was faced with the misconception of “How” Jesus would come to him, he was misguided. The young boy went forward anyway, walking to the pulpit, and accepting Christ. Although he had never experienced Jesus coming to him, he had never seen Jesus, he goes anyway, pretending to be saved due to social pressures. Later he returns home and cries

liberation to the essence of the gospel, which is Jesus Christ.” (pp. 1) James H. Cone stresses the

To Stoddard, the idea of “fostering conversions was more important than discovering a perfect church order, and in that attitude he blazed the way for the most influential practice in American religious history: he was the first American to make periodic revivals a centerpiece of his ministry” . Every decade his congregation would experience an “awakening” in which many people were moved spiritually and often lead to conversion. Some of these revivals even made it past Northampton and into the neighboring communities, directly impacting young Edwards and his family, for Edwards’s father rejected the half-way covenant but endorsed revival. These disagreements divided his family and remained unresolved for decades .

In Jonathan Edwards Sermon he uses scare tactics to force people to convert to Christianity or burn in hell for internally. This strategy is intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm. One strategy is using scare tactics explaining the anger and wrath of god that is what expressed by hell. “And the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, in not then very angry with the; as angry as he is with many miserable creatures now tormented in hell, who their feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath.” He explains the ones who are in gods congregation are at ease with his wrath but the many more who sin daily are now burring eternally in hell.

Both, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, show approaches towards Puritan beliefs. While they both show approaches each contrast one another. The authors use symbolism, diction, and details to compare the effects of a sinning nature and the beliefs of loyalties. While I would characterize Jonathan Edwards as terrifying and enraged, the character of Parson Hooper changes the reader’s understanding of Puritan ideals of religion by setting an example of what true Puritan religion is.

The Great Awakening is a time of religious restoration where individuals start to "stir" as they start to recall the presence of God, being "conceived" once more. As a minister, Jonathan Edwards conveyed numerous sermons trusting delinquents of various sorts would convert.Edwards trusts the world is brimming with transgression and that humankind survives due to God's kindness.

It reflects on the Puritans’’ ideals and beliefs. Such as, they believed in salvation and that the fate of individual soul was predetermined by God. Also, that salvation was a private choice among God and the 'Elect'. Elects or Saints were the ones who were saved and the ones who weren't were 'wicked’.

The First Great Awakening (c. 1735-1743) was the development of a religious revival which was heavily influenced by Calvinist ideals. It was centered around the American Revolution which was primary focused around the thirteen colonies in which an evangelical Protestant revivalist wave took the colonies by hold. With this, preachers like George Whitefield, an itinerant preacher, and Jonathan Edwards, father of the Great Awakening, began to preach to large bodies of people; spreading their beliefs in emotional ways that touched upon their emotions. George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, both well-known circuit riders, embedded fear in people by claiming God had already chosen who is saved by his salvation. The Second Great Awakening (c.1795-1830) was experienced across the country due to the advancement in the nation's economic growth. Preachers often spoke emotionally about their message to increase the reaction in people. Preaches proclaimed that the power of eternal salvation is in the hands of the person to decided to be saved and avoid eternal damnation. This ideals were closely influenced by Arminianism which sinfulness is a choice rather than a destiny, appealing to more people because of its optimistic outlook.

The more a soul accepts the works of God, the more spiritual it will become. God created the Great Awakening in order to give people the opportunity to experience more ecclesiastical zeal. Once a person finds "Joy in the Holy Ghost," they will then experience “joy unspeakable and full of glory." (Romans 14:17 & 1 Peter 1:8). Using these biblical quotes, Edwards explains that by exalting in God, the human soul fills with joy and raises. Therefore, it is in people's best interest to personally accept the Great Awakening and allow the works of God to fill their soul even more and spiritually elevate

Gore Vidal once said, “The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; In the New World, of course, they could and did.” In1741, esteemed Puritan pastor, Jonathan Edwards, preached a sermon to his congregation, terrifying everyone who wasn’t truly Puritan into becoming one. Edwards’ purpose was to admonish non-Puritans and emphasizes the importance of the Puritans rededicating their life to their faith. Edwards uses diction, logos, and personification to terrorize the congregation into leading the “perfect Puritan life”.

some ethos to emphasize the amount of hope he feels for sinners to converge to Christianity,

How do people in power influence society ?To influence means to have an affect on character,development, or behavior of someone or something. People in position of power use Rhetorical techniques in the process in trying to influence their audience. Sharing their opinion about a situation can affect a person in different ways ,by the person in power appealing to logic and emotions. Affects an individual’s character and also can have an large impact emotionally,mentally, and physically. Using these tools really all to persuade a person to feel what their feeling and see their side. It could be to help a person or shape an individual in astonishing way.

Jonathan Edwards was one of the most famed evangelical preachers in the Age of the Great Awakening. He is best known for his most impactful sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards preached with fury and conviction of the All Great our God. He preached for the wanderers; those lost in their spiritual belief. Edwards uses a wide variety of figurative language and rhetorical techniques to urge unregenerate Christians to sanctify their lives and walk devoutly before God, using fear. During this time of recognition, renewal and self-reliance in one’s connection with God, Edwards’ sermon did nothing but illustrate the exact conception of the age of the Great Awakening.

Often in sermons, minister pastors persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such in the case in Jonathan Edwards, sinners in the hands of an angry god where he feels sinners should repent for the sins they committed. Edwards wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fears, pity, and vanity. Edwards had an influential impact on his puritan because of his use of cautionary tone, complex imagery, and constructive figurative language.

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 exposed the excesses of misguided Puritan zeal. In the early part of the century, New Englanders enjoyed a rising level of affluence that induced a sense of both material and spiritual comfort and eventually led to the introduction of the Half-Way Covenant. Whereas full church membership was the privilege only of those and the children of those who could testify to a personal