Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

It’s hard to imagine being told that one is going to hell, that God hates them, and that things will never get better for them. However, that’s exactly what Jonathan Edwards did. During colonial times, their lives were so miserable, that having a scapegoat or someone to blame for all their troubles was actually somewhat…

In the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards uses persuasive techniques to draw attention to his words. Edwards, born in East Windor, Connecticut, he start-ed writing at a very young age: As a matter of fact, his first published piece occurred at age ten! Years later he attended college at…

Jonathan Edwards’ sermon in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” have very different styles of writing but there are stark similarities between the two of them that highlight the passage’s true meaning. In comparing the two stories one may clearly see the things that set them…

Puritans were a group of protesters who sought to purify the Church of England. In The Crucible, the Salem Witch Trials took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1692 to 1693, where the afflicted girls accused innocent people and resulted in numerous deaths. In the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,’ Edwards…

In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards uses pathos to create images that help his audience experience the consequences of sinful behavior. One such image is that God has been given the power to choose who he feels should spend the rest of eternity in either Heaven, or Hell based on…

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries”(Bukowski). In this quote, the American Poet and Novelist Charles Bukowski succinctly explains the major difference separating the…

​Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was a really moving and strong speech, the shock woke the people up from their sin, the sermon also shows us what’s the spiritual life and morality of the people like, we see how the people was fallen into the hell, how they enraged God,…

M. Brantley English 11 Ms. Blair In each of these poems: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Verses upon the Burning of our House, On Being Brought From Africa to America and Huswifery, God is seen as a being with many faces. He is seen as angry, merciful, teaching and a creator. Each…

The Puritan society was one of oppression and suppression. They were a strict people and looked down on all they disagreed with. As shown in the Jonathan Edwards sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, they viewed people who did not follow their doctrine to the letter as inferior and doomed to an…

Freedom isn’t doing whatever individuals want to do because they have “freedom”. Freedom has a larger meaning to it. In “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson, “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” by Olaudah Equiano, and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by…