Jonathan Edwards And George Whitfield's The Great Awakening

In the times when Whitefield left the colonies the people were left hungry for more preaching of revival this opened the door to for many believers to step in and fill the void of preacher. Unfortunately for Davenport he came into the Great Awakening around a time where those that opposed the ideas of the Great Awakening and its ideologies had almost had enough with the teachings. When he started preaching in Connecticut all the fears of those who despised the Great Awakening came to fruition when larges crowds gathered joyfully to hear him preach. The anti-revivalist party was less than pleased with Davenports unique style of preaching,” While he attracted huge crowds and won the hearts of many, he put himself at the disposal of enthusiastic impulses and impressions and freely censured the unconverted clergy whose unregenerate condition he claimed unerringly to perceive. In 1742 Connecticut found him guilty of disturbing the peace and, judging him unbalanced, deported him from the colony (No. II).

Rhetorical Analysis "Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all resolutions. "- Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” was a sermon written and delivered by American reverend Jonathan Edwards in 1741, and was an outstanding example of the potentially dominant convincing powers of the use of Rhetoric. The sermon, even when read silently, is effective in projecting a specific interpretation of the wrathful nature of God and the sinful nature of man.

His tone remains constant because in every paragraph he refers back to his main point which is to follow God and if not, to fear his wrath. 12. The text contains many commas and semicolons. When reading the speech, it does not make sense but when hearing the speech, it can be understandable on why Edwards used many commas and semicolons. 13.

During the 18th century, many people started questioning religions and some even converted to different religions, this period of time is known as the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards was a preacher in this time and, due to many religious changes, he made his very famous six hour sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Within his speech, Edwards utilizes analogy, imagery, and repetition to frighten his listeners and tell them of God's anger towards sinners. Edwards' implementation of analogy made him sermon sound much more harsh by comparing God's wrath to horrible events. During his sermon, Edwards says, "the wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present...more rapid and mighty is its course, when once

This document signifies the peace of five Indian nations. Repetition, description, tone, and influence are the main characteristics of both works of art. The first figurative language factor is repetition. The piece “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” repeats words such as wicked, danger, and hell.

In the early time there were believers of a powerful God, although they thought God was powerful they saw different points of view towards God’s emotions. Bradstreet thought of God as a helpful, kind, and powerful being, Edwards on the other hand saw god as a powerful, harsh, and strict being. To show Bradstreet’s view of God in her last stanza of “upon the burning of our house, july 10th 1666” she states “ A price so vast as in unknown.. Yet be his gift is made thee own; there’s wealth enough, I need no more..”.

Compare and contrast the meaning and style of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and “The Minister’s Black Veil.” How does each author convey his meaning to the reader? Which author’s style is more effective and why? Puritan religion is adequately portrayed in both Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”.

A lot of Edwards writing is meant for a more mature audience and mostly Puritans. Edwards uses fear to persuade the audience into being a servant of God. He was very strict in his morals and if you did not obey God you would go to hell, and if you were a good servant you would go to heaven. As a pastor he believed everyone should go to heaven and he would do anything to make sure of that, in one of Edwards writings “From Sinners in the Hands of God” he would use words like “his wrath in hell” (Edwards 79).

During the early 700’s, Charles Martel took over in Latin Christendom, his Frankish kingdom of Christians. Martel’s kingdom was under threat of a rapidly spreading religion, Islam. This led to many battles between Christians and Muslims, but the most significant one was the Battle of Tours, 723 AD. Martel lead his army against the Muslims to attempt to stop them from progressing further into Europe, and he does. Without Christianity, this event would have never happened.

The Great Awakening refer to several periods of dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. They have also been described as periodic revolutions in American religious thought. The Age of Enlightenment refers to either the eighteenth century in European philosophy, or the longer period including the seventeenth century and the Age of Reason. I would have to go with the Enlightenment because it is the basis of our political culture and it led to the Great Awakening, which is the basis of our spiritual culture.

Often in the sermons pastors persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or more fashion. Such is the case in Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” where he sends sinners to hell, who do not repent. Edwards wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fears, pity and vanity. Edwards had a powerful impact on his puritan audience because of his use of a cautionary tone, clear imagery and complex figurative language.

How did it change things? What are the good and bad sides of things? The Great Awakening brought about a bitter debate. The people who supported the T.G.A often split from their old churches to form new churches.

“Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God” is a appall sermon. Jonathan Edwards is motivated to make this speech so dramatic because he is talking about the Mighty God. He is also motivated because he wants to tell people what happens when you are a sinner. When you are talking about our God you should use all of you energy and might to talk about our Lord. The tools that he uses to keep his listeners focused is his voice.

It not only affected the colonists but contributed greatly to the development of the separation of church and state in America. To elaborate more on these two men, Edwards was the author of the well known sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” which beliefs were established in the paragraph above. Opposite of Edwards, George Whitefield used his gentle voice to gather the colonists attention, and reportedly made listeners stream tears without saying a word . Whitefield preached of how helpless we all are and there is only one way to be saved, which was by the mighty God.

He plys many different rhetorical strategies to convince his listeners to follow his word. He uses strategies including, repetition, appeal to fear, appeal to urgency and problem solution. Johnathan Edwards uses many rhetorical strategies in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". He uses repetition throughout the sermon. The main idea that he repeats is that if you do not love and believe in God, then you are going to hell.