“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” & Puritan Beliefs The Great Awakening was a revival movement that occurred during the 1730’s that made people strive for religious seriousness. It was a time of spiritual and religious rediscovery, which was the cause for many sermons. For example, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” delivered by Jonathon Edwards. His sermons spoke with pure urgency, and with the purpose of driving in the thought of his audience not to underestimate the power and majesty of a holy God. During the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon, Jonathon Edwards uses intense imagery and care word usage to emphasize many points into both the head and heart of his audience. He wanted people to realize that destruction was imminent: "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them …show more content…
And, unless we are “new creatures” we are all ultimately sinners that stand before abrupt destruction, and are preserved by God, not by ourselves. In Jonathon Edwards’s sermon, he speaks in such an intense way, and uses words that we might not use now. The words are evident of the time the sermon was delivered, as well as the urgency in his sermon. During this time, sermons were delivered to light a fire inside of the audience, and really eliminate any delay that they might have to make the main ideas of the sermon their full beliefs. Edwards also uses a lot of intense imagery, as he does when he describes the wrath of God: “But the great God is also willing to show his wrath, and magnify his awful majesty and mighty power in the extreme sufferings of his