Warm-upThink 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?

Memoirs Read and Annotate this short passage from Edwards’ memoirs.

I’ll have some questions for you when you finish.

Memoirs1. Identify how Edwards feels his connection or calling from God.

2. Annotate how Edwards describes God.

3. Find 3 ways in which Edwards sees God’s influence in his life.

4. Explain the relationship between God & Nature.

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

Background InformationImportant role in the shaping of The Great Awakening (1730-1755)

Grandfather of Aaron Burr

Was the fifth of eleven children

He entered Yale College in 1716, at just under the age of thirteen.

He was a scholar-pastor his rule being thirteen hours of study a day.

The Great AwakeningIn 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.

BeliefEdwards 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.

Cultural NoteAs a Calvinist, Jonathan Edwards believed that some people were

favored by God and others were not. This belief was interpreted by

some to mean that worldly success was a sign of God’s favor. Many

believed that one way God rewarded people for their repentance and

pious behavior was with earthly goods.

What is wrong with this assumption?

“Fire and Brimstone” tradition

“Sinners in the Hands…”Read/Listen to the sermon the first time through.

Annotate passages that stand out to you.

Read the sermon again and look for the following figurative elements: ◦ Repetition

◦ Sensory Details – the 5 senses!

Literary ElementsRepetition – 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.

Literary ElementsSensory details – Evocative words or phrases that appeal to one or more

of the five senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste.

“Sinners in the Hands…”Read the sermon again and look for the following figurative elements:

◦ Metaphor

◦ Simile

◦ Imagery

Read the sermon again and find the central SYMBOL.

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.

Literary ElementsImagery – The “word pictures” that writers create to evoke an emotional

response.

In creating effective images, writers use sensory details.

Literary ElementsFill in the chart of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, citing the text and explaining how/why they are used in the sermon.

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