Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards · 1741
America's most famous sermon: vivid, alarming, and ending with an application to the listener. You can read it in half an hour.
- Lived
- 1703–1758
- Where
- Northampton, Massachusetts
- In the library
- 1 book
Author
Jonathan Edwards
Colonial America's great preacher and thinker of the Great Awakening.
Jonathan Edwards entered Yale before he was thirteen and became pastor of one of the largest churches in colonial New England. He was a careful, quiet preacher who usually read from his notes, yet his church was at the centre of the revival known as the Great Awakening.
He is remembered for one sermon above all, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, preached at Enfield, Connecticut in July 1741. But he was also a philosopher and a missionary to the Mohawk and Mohican people at Stockbridge.
In 1758 he became president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton. A few weeks later he died after a smallpox inoculation, which he had taken to encourage others to do the same.