Summary Of The Great Awakening By Jonathan Edwards

During the Great Awakening, New England colonies –experimented-- a period of spiritual renewal that involved rigorous, emotional prayer and vehement sermons. The purpose of this religious revival was to inspire people to attend to Church and to accentuate the corruption of human beings along with the urgency for immediate contrition. It is of our knowledge that Edwards grew up in an atmosphere composed of Puritan piety and teachings, therefore he was a liege believer in good and evil. According to Puritan doctrine, each individual is directly responsible to God, ergo they had to accept the consequences of their blasphemous actions. Jonathan Edwards was invited to preach a Connecticut congregation on the consequences of sin and being nonbelievers. Edwards utilizes vivid hell imagery and depicts God as presented in the Old Testament to sway and exhort people into accepting Christ as their savior as well as urging them to not commit iniquitous acts.
Jonathan Edward´s preeminent method to incite fear of God is focusing on images of hell and the Old Testament teachings, where the Lord is presented as a righteous God who punishes people that commit sinful acts. The pastor accentuates that the Lord is furious at sinners, yet His righteous hand (reference to Isaiah 41:10) is what is abstaining them from falling to hell, “yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire”. ‘’’’’’’ God being enraged with His people is revealed in Deuteronomy 32, where God chastises Israel for breaking the