On July 8, 1741, at the First Church of Christ in Enfield, Massachusetts (Enfield, Connecticut today), Jonathan Edwards delivered perhaps the most famous sermon in American history. For good or ill (mostly ill, in my opinion), Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God has been cast as the archetypal 18th century Puritan sermon, [...]

The last day of my adventure in New Haven, and it’s hard to believe it’s already here. The week has flown by. On the agenda today is a special tour of sites related to Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Connecticut and Massachusetts. To document our trip, this post will have [...]

With a short teaser of the period of the Great Awakening given by Dr. Harry Stout the previous day, today we were to look at Edwards and the awakening in greater detail. In the years just before the awakenings really took off a highly noticeable declension in church attendance and new membership was plaguing [...]

Carrying on the premise behind an earlier post, another question I’ve been asked recently is, “why call the site ‘A Divine and Supernatural Light?’” This is a great question and one that should probably have been answered in the initial “an introduction” post, but oh well.
When I was trying to come up with a [...]

I’m currently working through Thomas Kidd’s recent work, The Great Awakening, and he broaches a question that I’ve often asked myself, but never really thought too deeply on.  That question is, “why do we remember Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?”  Of all the revival sermons that were preached in the various revival [...]