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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by the American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, [1] and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. The preaching of this sermon was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. [2]
Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": A Casebook. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14038-5. Lee, Sang Hyun (1988). The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards: Expanded Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-07325-5. McClenahan, Michael (2012). Jonathan Edwards and Justification by ...
Pages in category "Works by Jonathan Edwards (theologian)" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were referred to as "fire-and-brimstone preachers" during the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s. Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" remains among the best-known sermons from this period. Reports of one occasion when Edwards preached it said that many of the ...
The founders are clear that the scholarships are not reparations, a word many in the community would consider divisive, but instead “an act of love,” an acknowledgement of past harms in the ...
The jeremiad was a favorite literary device of the Puritans, and was used in prominent early evangelical sermons like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards. [6] Besides Jonathan Edwards, such jeremiads can be found in every era of American history, including John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Fenimore Cooper. [7] [page ...
When revivalists preached, they emphasized God's moral law to highlight the holiness of God and to spark conviction in the unconverted. [75] Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is an example of such preaching. [citation needed] As Calvinists, revivalists also preached the doctrines of original sin and unconditional ...