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    presented throughout this course was Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinner in the Hands of An Angry God,” and Rebecca Harding Davis’ “Life in the Iron-Mills.” Edwards aims to achieve a serious emotional response from the readers with his sermon in which goes into great detail about how those wicked people will feel the wrath of God’s anger when in the fire pit of hell. Within the sermon, an emotional response is brought up by threatening those sinners, adding imagery, and the everlasting of the wrath. Edwards

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    Fear The Mind     Effectiveness is the reason for most argument pieces. Edwards argues in “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” that everyone must be completely devoted to God or else God will send them to hell. Martin Luther King’s piece “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he is responding to the clergymen’s criticism. Both “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by King and “Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards persuade their intended audience on their subject and believe what they believe;

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    two years to study theology and he was constantly attempting to perfect himself. He married his wife, Sarah Pierpont, in 1727 and two years following the he succeeded his grandfather, Reverend Solomon Stoddard, at his church. He gave his speech, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God on a Wednesday afternoon on the eighth of July 1741 (Turley, Stephan). This famous sermon that he gave to his pupils was full of ethos, pathos and logos that he used to convince his audience (Levine, Robert). Ethos is

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    Literary analysis of “The sinners in the hands of an angry god” The great awakening was a religion revival that occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It started in England and then gradually made its way over to the Americans colonies. During this time, many different preacher and religious speaker went around and gave speeches to the people. Jonathan Edwards was one ofs2xwds those speakers. He wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” during this period and eloquently delivered to his fellow churchman

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    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

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    "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, Question 7 7a. In the sermon, “from Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards, there is passion within the text that he believes strongly about the multiple tenets of Puritanism, one of the Puritan philosophical beliefs can be seen as Backsliding. As explained, it would not really matter if compared a person who strayed from the path or a person who has “reformed life in many things, and may had religious affections, and

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    Two Puritan authors, Anne Bradstreet and Jonathon Edwards each wrote a poem and a sermon in the 16th and 17th century unraveling their puritan life and beliefs. A Puritan lives by God and if he or she does something against Gods will, they feel as if they need to be punished. They had a firm relationship with God. Although Bradstreet and Edwards were both Puritan, they had a slightly different tone in their poem and sermon on their beliefs. In Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of Our House,”

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    Jonathan Edwards, a preacher during the American Enlightenment period, was mostly known for his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century movement distinguished by the belief in the power of human reason and by advancements in political, religious, and educational doctrine. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was written as a response to the Puritans losing their faith because of the new scientific theories and emphasis on human reason that contradicted

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    It is year 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, and Puritan Pastor Jonathan Edwards gives one of his best sermons- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Reverend Edwards was a religious leader during “The Great Awakening”, a time of spiritual revival, and desperately wanted all of his congregation to have faith, and be saved in the Heavenly Father. As a result, Edwards crafted a sermon rich in figurative language. By constructing a sermon that relied heavily on imagery and repetition Edwards created an

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    people did not share his views it made him angry. I believe he makes God look angry because of his anger towards nonbelievers. For that reason, Jonathan Edwards is one of the most misunderstood Americans in history. Works Cited Lauter, John. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." The

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