This Jesus Must Die Rhetorical Devices

Imagine you are a Puritan, it is the Great Awakening, and one of the most well-known preachers of the time is telling you that there is a good chance you are going to hell. Without some serious skills in persuasion, this statement wouldn’t mean anything. Jonathan Edwards ' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" speech was extremely effective in persuading the Puritans to take their religious beliefs more seriously due to his use of many rhetorical devices such as: figures of speech, repetition and sound, syntax, and the triangle of rhetoric - ethos, pathos, and logos. The people were getting distracted by things other than religion

Contrasting to ‘Didn’t my lord deliver Daniel’ we move onto ‘Fix me Jesus’ which is performed as a duet and portrays the priest and someone that has gone to confess. The lighting changes to blue and white which gives a crystal like intensity. At the start of this section the male figure is stood behind the women and almost covers her movements as if to protect her and to show the trust. The repetition of the women’s hand gestures also seems as if he’s giving her his blessing. There is also repetition from sub section one ‘I’ve been buked’ with the use of proximity and actions such as the bird pose which helps to portray the emotion of this part. Throughout this part the women doesn’t always focus on her partner but is still reliable on him. This is shown through tilted balances and lifts where the male is the supporter. There is an extensive use of weight bearing, strength and trust which are all metaphors within this piece and the use of off kilter positions and balletic actions help to enhance the mood.

Respected Puritan minister, Jonathan Edwards in his Sermon, “Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God (1781), Elaborates on the negatives of being a repentant sinner. Edward’s goal is to inform people that sinning can be dangerous. He adopts a serious tone in order to establish a constant fear within Sinners and Non Sinners reading. Using the heavy caution within his readers let him establish a successful Sermon with the help of examples.

In both “Masque of the Red Death” and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author uses specific elements to express meaning and to develop a theme. He is portraying the idea that neither love nor death has a limit, no matter what we want to imagine. We have no control of either, especially death. In “The Masque of The Red Death” Poe makes the inference that death is inevitable or inescapable. In “Annabel Lee” he uses the power of two character’s love to show that death is not preventable no matter what you do. Also, he shows that love never vanishes even after death. In both selections, Poe uses rhetorical devices such as parallelism, symbolism, and imagery to draw the reader into the story.

Jonathan Edwards’ passionate sermon, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” creates a state of fear to make “sinners” aware of their sinful state and the wrath of God that they will face sooner or later. In order to warn “sinners” of their future involving God, he approaches fear as a motivator by using metaphors to emphasize God’s disgust towards man, imagery to for the imagination to dwell upon and repetition to build guilt into his readers which helps him enforce his condemning tone.

In the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, there is a usage of rhetorical devices including imagery, alliteration, and personification to create an impacting scene for the audience to obey and follow the path of Christ. He engages with his audience through rhetorical devices and lists consequences of being doomed to hell.

Godspell is a musical that explains various parables from the Gospel of Matthew (and a few from the Gospel of Luke.) The production of Godspell put on at Carthage took a modern approach to the Broadway classic. Instead of philosophers debating religion during the opening, it was college students venting on the internet. Additionally, the actors chose not to don clown makeup after choosing to follow Jesus, but instead, each wore a pin to demonstrate their allegiance. The music is set to modern beats but the lyrics are derived from popular hymns.

Jonathan Edwards, the author of “from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, uses syntactic techniques to accomplish his purpose of his intended audience, the “unconverted”. Edwards informs his “unconverted” audience that God is “angry” (Page 1 Line 8) with them, as it is repeated numerous times throughout the sermon. He also informs his audience on how to be unconverted and change to converted. Along with informing, Edwards also persuades his unconverted audience to become converted.

On July 8, 1741, in Enfield Connecticut, the speech Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, was delivered. The sermon was given by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards. His goal and purpose was to teach and warn people of the dangers of sins and the horrors of the afterlife. The speech was given at his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect. Edwards had started The Great Awakening from his preaching. He was also a descendant of four generations of Puritan ministers and the most renowned and influential of Puritan Leaders. Edward began his sermon by saying "In this verse is threatened the Vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, that were God's visible People, and lived under Means of Grace: and that, notwithstanding all" He also states "Gods wonderful Works that he had wrought towards that People, yet remained, as is expressed."(ver. 28. Void of Counsels)

The authors of both texts use strong words that describe their text, and theme. Both texts compare in style and theme, but they also contrast as well. The two authors Jonathan Edwards and Nathaniel Hawthorne have good styles but Jonathan Edwards style is more effective.

An easy example of repetition is “Psychosocial” which refers to how society is making people more greedy. As the rest of the song is about greed and despair the tone of the chorus changes throughout the song. The repetition is mainly used to emphasise the ends of all other lines it comes after, although it seems like a catchy chorus the meaning is how having rich and greedy people to look up to causes normal people to strive to reach the same financial status as their idols.  An example of a metaphor is the singer saying “Go drill your deserts, go dig your graves” likening oil barons drilling oil to them digging their own graves as they are consumed by the greed they portray in their business practices. This furthers his other point of

Pilate’s life as a whole may be a mystery to many, but as seen today there are historical writings that help us understand who Pilate was. Also seen today was the rocky relationship between the Jews and Pilate. This gives un an interesting insight into the crucifixion. We know Pilate tried to please the Jews, and we know that the religious leaders were not fond of him. Next week we will take a look at the crucifixion, and the trial of Jesus. As noted earlier Pilate played a role in this, but how does his role compare to Passover? Next week we will look into that, and I will show that Pilate’s role is an important one.

Pontius Pilate was a book written by Paul Maier in 1968. This book is a historical fiction and it is about the governor from Judea who leads over the Jesus’s trial. The governor’s name is Pontius Pilate. The book is in Pilate’s perspective and it was very interesting to see someone else’s view. This book guided and helped me understand cultural as well as political background of the Gospels. This book had many parallels to the teachings of the Bible and it was really interesting to me because I have never read a biblical novel before.

Despite this musical finding broad support among the vast liberal Christian churches, the piece was nonetheless too controversial as to get financial backing that was essential for its stage production. The lyrics of this musical were particularly clunky and its score normally overwrought. Despite this, this musical was the turning point of popular cultural representation of Jesus as it consequently made a powerful statement concerning the celebrity figure in the process.

The human journey can be seen as a quest. It is a search for knowledge, understanding, and satisfaction. The greatest of humanity's questions have involved faith, specifically the existence of God. Attributed with qualities like omniscience, all loving, and omnibenevolent, God has been worshipped for centuries. The belief of God has traveled a long road and still evolves to this present day. In The History of God, Karen Armstrong explored how men and women came to form a conception about God. Armstrong explained the formation of the three major monotheistic traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Not only does she introduce the concept of the death of God and his future, Armstrong also argues that all religions in their purest form are quite similar. In The History of God, Armstrong, while applying a formal and objective style, effectively used rhetoric to narrate the epic history of God.