Jonathan Edwards was a very well educated man who went to Yale during his school years. He was very concerned with defining the nature of true religious experience. He wrote a sermon called "Sinners ... Hands of an Angry God." In his sermon, the sinners were the wicked unbelieving Israelites. They were God's people who lived under the Ten Commandments God had given to them. Edwards claims that the Israelites had no understanding in the Ten commandments and brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit. The thing that keeps the sinners from hell is merely the hand ... God is angry, it is merely t...

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... the Congregational Church, such as the Half-way Covenant, used to raise the worship attendance, which however, led to further declines of religious commitment. However, with preachers such as Jonathan Edwards, in his notable sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", stating that "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or ... ...

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... 10, 1666. It was the Puritans who most powerfully influenced the course of American literature and the formation of the American imagination. The period of ENLIGHTENMENT was recognized by Jonathan Edwards, who wrote SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD. This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves ... ...

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