Category: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

In William Bradfords, Of Plymouth Plantation:The voyage of the Mayflower,” he references God’s providence. This made me believe that he thought of God as his higher power. After reading the excerpt many times I had come to the conclusion that his view on good was both good and bad. He referenced him many times throughout…

Several centuries ago, an important revival swept through New England called the Great Awakening. During this time period, Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan priest was greatly impacted from this religion so he wrote and presented a sermon known as Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. He wrote this Sermon, aiming to frighten his followers…

‘Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering'(Edwards,2). It is this kind of language that Jonathan Edwards used to persuade many early American settlers. This line comes from the famous sermon, ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’, which was delivered July 8,1741 in the state of Connecticut. Many people…

Sin was apart of puritans everyday lives. In Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Nathaniel Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil, both have similarities and address the same concepts. In Edwardss sermon, he uses many scare tactics, while Hawthorne left people to ponder his main purpose. While some would characterize Jonathan…

In Nathaniel Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil and Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God each author uses different styles in which they convey their meaning to the Puritan religion to the readers. A more persuasive way to get the meaning across, correlating with Edwards, is that nothing dealing with Gods powers…