The Great Awakening Rhetorical Analysis

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Jonathan Edwards was a revivalist, preacher, philosopher, and a protestant during the 18th century. During the 18th century, he wrote a sermon called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God which is an example of The Great Awakening. The Great Awakening was a time period where they started to use descriptive language and they really started to focus on the individual. Edwards’s sermon expresses the ideology of emotionalism, persecution, and revivalism.

While I was reading his sermon I realized that his sermon really expresses the ideology of emotionalism. The reason it expresses emotionalism is because he is trying to get the listeners, who are sinners, to think that God will drop them into hell at any given moment. The quotation for this