History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0477 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jonathan Edwards
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The idea
Jonathan Edwards of Northampton had grown frustrated with the lack of religious emotion among practising Christians, and used vivid depictions of the terrors of hell.
In practice
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, describing a furnace now hot and ready to receive them.
Where people slip
The sermon was reprinted often and distributed widely, which is what made a local pulpit into a transatlantic event.
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