Transcript Jonathan Edwards Bio.

Jonathan Edwards Bio.(1703-1758)
Pgs. 96-97
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“fire and brimstone”
1. With what is Edwards
synonymous?
2. What does the phrase for
answer #1 symbolize?
3. In what type of atmosphere
did he grow up?
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4. As a young boy, what did
Edwards do?
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Preached sermons to his
playmates behind his home
5. What proof is there that
Edwards was a brilliant
academic?
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Learned Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew by age 12
Entered Yale at age 13
Graduated at age 17 as
valedictorian
Earned master’s in theology
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The torments of hell endured by
sinners
Devout discipline
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6. Of what religious revival was he a
leader?
7. Of which college did he become
president?
8. What is his most famous work? Why?
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6. the Great Awakening
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College of New Jersey (Princeton U)
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9. How long was his sermon?
10. How was Edwards able to build
religious emotion to a fever pitch?
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“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
It caused listeners to rise from their seats
in a state of hysteria
Six hours
Through effective use of vivid imagery
and repetition of his main points
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11. What is a sermon?
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12. What is its purpose?
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Quickwrite: Read p. 97 – Lit. and Your
Life. Respond to Thematic Focus
question. Be sure to support your
opinion with valid reasoning.
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It’s a speech given from a pulpit in honor
of worship, usually as part of a religious
service.
It expresses the message or point of view
its author wishes to convey to his/her
audience (congregation).
Answers Vary.
“SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN
ANGRY GOD” – J. Edwards
• Tone:
• Angry; God is vengeful
• Mood:
• Atmosphere, is the
feeling created in the
reader by a literary work
or passage.
• Fear; Uncertainty
• Theme:
• Repentance is the only
means of salvation; Mend
your ways or else
• Imagery:
• The descriptive or figurative
language used in literature to
create word pictures for the
reader. These pictures or
images are created by details
of sight, sound, taste, touch,
smell, or movement.
• Lake of burning brimstone;
dreadful pit of glowing flames;
Hell’s wide gaping mouth
open; loathsome insect; most
hateful venomous serpent
PERSUASIVE APPEALS
Ethos
References to authority/higher
power or Credibility (Position
of an individual) (God, the
Bible, etc.)
Pathos
Logos
• Appeals to emotion; attempts
to stir feelings; look for
charged or loaded words such
as liberty, tyranny, injustice,
etc.)
• Appeals to logic, reason,
practicality, facts (may involve
rhetorical questions)
Ethos, Pathos, Logos in
“Sinners…”
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
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Edwards is a preacher, a high,
respected authority; God; Christ;
divine; Mediator
Loathsome insect; abhors;
dreadfully; wrath; abominable;
most hateful venomous serpent;
rebel; prince; hell; sinner;
bottomless pit; incensed; damned;
slender thread; singe; burn;
Mediator; Sodom; consumed
Edwards’s entire sermon is based
on logic regarding the
consequences of one’s failure to
repent before it is too late
Edwards’s View of the Afterlife
• Afterlife:
• What happens to
people when they
die? Will it be a
happy or sad
existence?
• Edwards portrays the
afterlife as an eternity
of suffering reserved
for sinners.
Edwards vs Bradstreet
• Views of God and the
Afterlife:
• Edwards views God as
an angry, vengeful figure.
• Edwards portrays the
afterlife as an eternity of
suffering reserved for
sinners
• Bradstreet views God as
a kind, benevolent, loving
figure.
• Bradstreet presents a
pleasant view of the
afterlife for those who are
saved.
Closing Thoughts
Closing Thoughts
• Even though both Edwards and Bradstreet
were Puritans, their views on God and the
afterlife contrasted.
• How could two Puritans embrace such
different views?
• How do you view God and the afterlife?
Rhetorical and Aesthetic Purposes
• Writers such as Edwards and Bradstreet use
literary devices such as tone, mood, irony,
imagery, sound, to create a particular style.
• The writer’s style helps him/her to convince the
reader/audience of his/her purpose of the writing
and to better convey the theme/main idea of the
literary work.
• Furthermore, the use of the literary devices
creates a beauty (desired effect) for the
reader/audience.