1. To consider…
Think about a time you tried to change someone’s mind. Did you use a gentle approach, scare tactics, or something in between? Have you ever persuaded someone to do something or share your same belief? How did you do it? What was the outcome?

2. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards

3. Background Information
Important role in the shaping of The Great Awakening ( )
Was the fifth of eleven children
He entered Yale College in 1716, at just under the age of thirteen.
He was a scholar/pastor and studied thirteen hours a day.

4. The Great Awakening
In 1740 the well-known British evangelist George Whitefield joined with Jonathan Edwards to spark a religious revival that swept New England. The Great Awakening was a backlash against what many believed was a church that had grown far too lenient.

5. Edwards preached a return to Calvinism which stressed predestination, the belief that only a select few chosen by God would be saved. No individual could earn grace by doing good deeds, so everyone was equally powerless to control their own fate.

6. “Fire and Brimstone” tradition

7. Literary Elements
Metaphor – a figure of speech that compares or equates two seemingly unlike things. In contrast to a simile, a metaphor implies the comparison instead of stating it directly; hence there is no use of connectives such as like or as.

8. In creating effective images, writers use sensory details.
Literary Elements
Imagery – The “word pictures” that writers create to evoke an emotional response.
In creating effective images, writers use sensory details.

9. Literary Elements
Repetition – The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing.
Repetition increases the sense of unity in a work and can call attention to particular ideas.

10. Literary Elements
Sensory details – Evocative words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste.

11. Religion in the Colonies

12. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Analyze the Title
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

13. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Analyze the Title
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

14. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Analyze the Title
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

15. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Analyze the Title
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

16. Visualize the Story
As you read, visualize the faces on the congregation as they listen to the speech. How might they react? Could their outward reactions tell how they are reacting inwardly?

17. Let’s Read!
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