...The Best Way to Persuade: Fear “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards, is a speech that attempts to persuade individuals to join the Puritan movement. Edwards aims the speech towards everyone who is a part of the Puritan village and also those who are not. To sway the audience, Edwards uses a wrathful and intimidating tone. Jonathan Edwards believed that if you did not give your life to God then you would face God’s wrath. Edwards uses imagery and metaphors to persuade his audience to join the Puritan movement. Edwards, undoubtedly, uses imagery to persuade and affect his audience. Multiple times throughout his speech Edwards attempts to intimidate the audience using negative imagery. An example of this is, “There are black clouds of God’s wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder;” (Edwards). Edwards uses negative imagery to intimidate his audience to give their lives to God. He is telling his audience that God can strike his wrath at any point in time, which almost forces people to give themselves to God. Edwards paints a vivid image using thunder and clouds to scare the people and portray God as a...
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...Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 1. Describe three specific details of Edwards’ background. Jonathan Edwards grew up from an orthodox and devout religious family. From a young age, Edwards displayed his religious faith by preaching sermons to his friends. After earning a degree in the theology, Edwards began preaching with his grandfather in one of the largest and wealthiest Puritan congregations. 2. In what manner did Edwards deliver his sermon? Edwards delivered his sermon in a calm and composed manner. He was very collected and focused during his deliverance. 3. Who was his intended audience? Jonathan Edwards’ intended audience were Puritans that had lost faith in God due to the fact that many Puritans lost their faith because of scientific theories that contradicted the word of God. He directed the sermon to those who were “hanging over the pit of hell.” 4. What was his effect on his audience? Edwards’s listeners were said to have gasped and screamed in terror. Edwards message reached farther than the audience in the church, causing many Puritans to reconnect with their religion and refuel their...
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...In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards uses simile,repetition, and allusion to create a persuasive speech. Edward uses simile's in the prompt to compare two things. He says, "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present". He is comparing the wrath of God to dammed waters to explain what he is trying to say about God which is that the wrath is changing quickly just how dammed waters do. Edwards also says,"His wrath towards you burns like fire". This explains how painful the wrath is because Edward compares it to fire. He shows how the wrath is and what the pain would be like since he decided to compare it to pain of fire. And to explain how much wickedness they are, he compares it to the heaviness of lead. He states, " Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell". This shows that he tries to compare the wickedness to heavy lead to explain how it would pressure down to hell....
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...approach develops into the movement recognized as the “Enlightenment”. An interpretation from brittanica.com describes Jonathan Edwards as he “is stimulator of the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening,” and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century”. His sermon titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” set forth to persuade the followers of God and sinners too, differing in age, gender and social status to renounce their wicked ways and surrender to the will of God. For that reason the underlying, but...
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...Previously on The Asylum: Abigail: (Sitting by herself humming, drawing a photo, of her and john proctor and her holding hands) and a dead woman in the background (John proctors wife). Boo: Staring outside (Jonathan Edwards walks in) Yellow: (yells at Jonathan) “I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Johnathan: “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide bottomless pit of fire that you are held over in the hand of that God” Yellow: “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will” Starting of the next episode: (Blanche is being escorted in by Jonathan Edward’s and Atticus) Blanche: “I don't know you--I don't know you. I want to be--left alone--please!” I was supposed to meet Shep Huntleigh! “Didn't I get a call?” Jonathan Edward’s (to Atticus and looking at the patients): “They deserve to be cast into hell” Atticus: how can you say that about them, these people are just different. “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” Atticus: Honey we will try are best to find this Shep character you are speaking of ,and you’ll have your call. Blanche: Thank you… Johnathan Edwards: sit here and wait for the owner he will show you around. (Showing back of Gatsby’s head while he talks to the other Patients Gatsby: I’m glad you feel better old sport (patting boo on the back) Blanche: (asking R.W.E walking by, while sobbing)...
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...Jonathan Edwards’ Rhetorical Strategies In the sermon of Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” he talks about God having no mercy for sinners. With that he uses many rhetorical strategies to get his point across to his audience and readers. As preacher of the Great Awakening it is his job to offer salvation, but he is very compelling and makes it sound as if sinners cannot be saved from the fires of hell. He uses fierce words towards those who sin and do not follow the teachings of God. Edwards uses rhetorical strategies such as imagery, anaphora, similes, and metaphors to grab the audience’s attention making his sermon persuasive. For instance, Jonathan Edwards starts his speech with imagery. He uses imagery various...
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...Sermon Sinners in the Hands of an angry God by Jonathan Edwards he doesn’t agree with the idea of the puritans about pre-destination. When Jonathan Edwards gave this sermon in 1741 he emphasized the idea that God gives us a choice of free will, wether we decide what choice to make, heaven or hell. But this statement contradicts puritan beliefs in that time, Puritans believed that God already decides who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. Signifying that Jonathan didn’t support puritan beliefs even tough he was considered one. He was part of the first great awakening that rejected puritan ideas, and spread the idea of christianity and how pre-destination does not exist. In the sermon he says: O sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide an bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of God.(Sinners in the Hand of an angry...
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...for colonists. Puritanism had a big impact on American colonist’s lives. Before the Great Awakening, religion was common in colonies. However, the Great Awakening changed religion for them. The colonist’s feelings towards God changed and many new religions were made. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a sermon by Jonathan Edwards. This sermon contains many details that show how religion changed for the colonists. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards shows how colonists were impacted by the Great Awakening. Religion prior to the Great Awakening was much stricter. Different colonies had different rules but...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of Sinners in the hands of an angry God Preacher, Jonathan Edwards author of Sinners in the hands of an angry God (1741) reveals that God is approaching mercy on people who sin. He’s trying to convince Puritan congregation that if you sin you will be damned to hell. Edwards develops this claim by clarifying that if the people in this congregation do not follow God’s will they will result in death by being sent to hell. His purpose is to convince Puritans that God is wrathful God and to also warn the people of the dangers of damnation. He uses structure, pathos and imagery to satisfy the reader that the people who are unrepentant may reject God. Edwards perspective of sin is like a force in a world that is dictated by the devil....
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...them very effectively. Jonathan Edwards uses many different figures of speech in his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. In order to keep his sermon interesting and meaningful, Edwards uses similes. He uses personification to give his sermon life and to connect with his audience. Finally, to create rhythm and mood, Jonathan Edwards uses alliteration. Edwards does a phenomenal job using these three figures of speech and provides excellent examples of each. A simile is a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared using the word “like” or “as”. Jonathan Edwards uses many similes...
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..."Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was a sermon given by the Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards. In this sermon Edwards uses the fear that God can punish the wicked at any time he wants, to keep his people under control. Some say this type of harsh preaching was a practice used by the puritans to make all people live a righteous and correct life. A multitude of people have analyzed ¨Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God¨ and have many different interpretations of it. Most would agree it is simply about a man trying to scare people into Christianity using the roaring wrath of God as stated above. There are others who have taken that idea and used it to compare different concepts. The ideas that stem from this sermon ¨Sinners in the Hands...
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...Sinner’s Fate Jonathan Edwards, a philosopher, preacher and puritan of the 18th century acknowledges that many sisters and brothers have walked away from God. In an attempt to bring those people back he establishes a fear into them, a fear of God, so those who left may come to find their church and God once more. Jonathan Edwards’ sermon aims to bring the people who have walked away from God and from the church, back. His homily is strong and effective, and is able to produce an argument that frightens those listening to his sermon, contributing, in part to the Great Awakening. Throughout his sermon Edwards utilizes rhetorical devices to transmit his message. He applies devices such as invectives, analogies, and imagery to make his speech effective toward the audience and successfully deliver his news of how God will eventually punish the sinner. Edwards uses literary devices such as invectives and analogies to convey his message of having people come back to the church, and mainly to God. Edwards harshly criticizes his audience when he describes how God "looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire… you are ten thousand times more abdominal in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours." (Edwards). Edwards manages to get through to those who left, criticizing the society that has become corrupt in the...
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..."Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards In the first few weeks of class we have discussed the thought and religion of the early people that first began the development of our counrty. As we have looked at the literature in class the works of these writers seem to be simlar in that each one talks about a higher being that these people all worshipped. However, that is where the comparisons would end. One of the writings that I found interesting was that of Jonathan Edwards. Born in 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards lived at a time when the Calvinistic Puritanism of the American colonies, particularly New England, was giving way to thoughts coming out of Europe. We had discussed in one of first classes the reason that so many of the laws and rights found here in the United States were the same as in Europe. The reason was for this is because that is where the people of early America came from. This is the reason for the large population of people believing in these thoughts and beliefs coming from Europe. The Bible was a large part of the lives of these people. With that, as many religious leaders before and after him, Edwards's source of inspiration and guidance was the Bible. He often used parts or sections of biblical verse rather than complete text because too much information might diminish the importance of his primary intent. An example of how he preached to the people can be seen in Edwards's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry...
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...The Great Awakening was a movement in colonial times influenced by leaders such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. One of Jonathan edwards’ most influencial sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. In this sermon, he demonstrates how God’s wrath is unstoppable and only Christ can save you from an eternity of misery. In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’, Jonathan Edwards impacts religious beliefs of colonial American people through rhetoric and persuasion during the Great Awakening. Edwards’ sermon revolutionizes the religious beliefs during the Great Awakening. Edwards uses the simile: “ The God holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like a fire… you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the worst venomous serpent is in ours” (Edwards 89). This new idea of God being a God of fury and relentless wrath revolutionized the belief of colonial Americans. William Farley states in his article on the Great Awakening that “Overnight, the town was transformed. The citizens sang hymns in the streets, the tavern closed, young people pursued God in bands, and it...
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...The verbalization, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, is set in the time of the Great Awakening. Although this time period was after the Puritans, it sets the stage for the abundance of Edwards’ notions. Edwards’ speech, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, speaks to the audience because of the harshness and the ability to create trepidation in people. He strategically lowers the audience’s self-love and makes it feel guilty until eventually when hearing the horrors of hell, you endure fear. The speech begins by making you terror hell and then gives you the loophole out of it. Although the message is not distinctly stated, Edwards’ vigor in speech blows the audience into believing every single word. Given the setting and circumstances of his time, Edwards' speech, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", is an example of an effective argument due to his allusions to the past and polished use of visual imagery to engender fear in his audience. Edwards’ speech uses visual imagery, therefore leaving a mark and creating guilt in the audiences’ conscious. After creating multiple emotions like: guilt, fear, self-realization, he gives them a mode to be saved from it all. Although each of these images were diminutive and concise, when allied with the allusions they create the trepidation Edwards worked...
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