Summary Of Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

We discussed in class many different pieces of literature and how they affected people during the early years. As we were reading these different pieces of literature I realized that almost all of them spoke about a higher power in some sort of way. The writing that really stood out to me was Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. This writing was a sermon by Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was very involved with religious affairs and the theological problems of the world (Edwards 332). He gave this sermon to a congregation of people during the time of the Great Awakening, a period of religious revival. Edwards point in presenting this sermon was the try and persuade the people that were sinners to repent. Jonathan Edwards used vivid and threatening imagery and metaphors in order to deliberately stimulate religious change in his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Jonathan Edwards used this great imagery and metaphors in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in order to try to lead the members of the congregation to become more interested in the church and fear God.

He presented his sermon to a congregation of people in a time period called the Great Awakening. This time was a period of religious revival that was meant to rekindle Puritan values. The reason for the Great Awakening was to get people more into and interested in religions and to get more people to join the church. Since Edwards preached his sermon during this time period of religious revival it had a more powerful impact on these people. This sermon played a big role also in continuing the formation of the Great Awakening. During his sermon members of the congregation would often interrupt him and ask how they could be saved. There were many other different ways in which his sermon impacted the lives of the people of this time. He used imagery also as a way of getting peoples attention about how important repenting