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1. How does Jonathan Edwards personalize hell for his listeners?

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   Questions: - How does Jonathan Edwards personalize hell for his listeners?
2. In addition to the terrifying description of hell, what other ways does Edwards appeal to his audience to heed his warnings and turn to Christ?

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   Questions: - In addition to the terrifying description of hell, what other ways does Edwards appeal to his audience to heed his warnings and turn to Christ?
3. Historians consider the sermons of Edwards and other Great Awakening revivalists to have helped sow the seeds of the American Revolution. What is it about a sermon like this that might have encouraged disassociation from English authority?

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   Questions: - Historians consider the sermons of Edwards and other Great Awakening revivalists to have helped sow the seeds of the American Revolution. What is it about a sermon like this that might have encouraged disassociation from English authority?
4. What evidence do you find in this sermon that Edwards knew about the newly recognized physical property of gravity, discovered by Isaac Newton?

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   Questions: - What evidence do you find in this sermon that Edwards knew about the newly recognized physical property of gravity, discovered by Isaac Newton?
5. The American lawyer Clarence Darrow said of Jonathan Edwards, “Nothing but a distorted or diseased mind could have produced his ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.’ Nothing but the puritanical, cruel generation in which he lived could have tolerated it.” And yet, we continue to read it today and consider it a classic of early American literature. What does it have to offer a modern reader? What does it tell us about the important transitions in American history? How does it connect old and new ideas, such as individual freedom versus political or clerical authority, even science versus scripture?

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   Questions: - The American lawyer Clarence Darrow said of Jonathan Edwards, “Nothing but a distorted or diseased mind could have produced his ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.’ Nothing but the puritanical, cruel generation in which he lived could have tolerated it.” And yet, we continue to read it today and consider it a classic of early American literature. What does it have to offer a modern reader? What does it tell us about the important transitions in American history? How does it connect old and new ideas, such as individual freedom versus political or clerical authority, even science versus scripture?