Friday, May 4, 2018

For how long will the damned suffer in hell, according to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards?

"" by , a Puritan minister, is arguably the most famous sermon in American
literature. It was delivered in 1741 at the peak of a revival of spirituality in America called
the Great Awakening to a rather recalcitrant church. The sermon is full of vividdesigned to
awaken fear and inspire faith in listeners, and by most accounts, it worked. 


In the fourth point of the "Application" section of the sermon, Edwards
reminds the people sitting in the pews--many of whom by this point in the sermon
are...

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