Rev. Jonathan Edwards delivered the hellfire and brimstone “spider” sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in Enfield, Connecticut on July 8, 1741. This topical sermon is a bitter jeremiad ...

This was the scene when Jonathan Edwards delivered his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” at the First Church of Christ on July 8, 1741. An engraved boulder by the side of Route 5 marks the ...

From the American pulpit today one might easily conclude that the wrath of God is a fiction. No longer are churches of the land aflame with a lively sense of God’s anger against sin and sinners. Some ...

Faith Baptist Church will host a 270th anniversary presentation of Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” performed by the Rev. Dr. Paul Mathenia, of Faith Baptist, in ...

Are we sinners in the hands of an angry God as the famous sermon by Early American Protestant preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards would have it? Or are we children of a loving God? This week’s ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) The release of Edwards’ work comes amid renewed interest in the preacher, especially among conservative evangelicals and “New Calvinists,” mostly evangelicals who are acolytes ...

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In 1741, one of America’s greatest intellectuals, Jonathan Edwards, preached a sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” It was so effective, people ran down the church aisle to be saved ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) The collected works of Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century preacher and one of America’s most famous theologians, are now available for download thanks to Logos Bible Software.