JONATHAN EDWARDS, “SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD” (8 JULY 1741)

Readings

Baumgartner, Paul R. “Jonathan Edwards: The Theory Behind His Use of Figurative Language.” PMLA 78, no. 4 (1963): 321-325.

Brown, Robert E. Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Cady, Edwin H. “The Artistry of Jonathan Edwards.” The New England Quarterly 22, no.1 (1949): 61-72.

Chamberlain, Ava. “The Grand Sower of the Seed: Jonathan Edwards’s Critique of George Whitefield.” The New England Quarterly 70, no. 3 (1997): 368-385.

Conforti, Joseph. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Traditions, and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Darrow, Clarence. “The Edwardses and the Jukeses.” American Mercury 6, October1925, 147-157.

Edwards, Jonathan. “Christian Charity.” In The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 2, 163-173. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998.

———. “The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God.” In Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 4, the Great Awakening. Edited by C. C. Goen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. First published 1741.

———. “A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, and the Neighboring Towns and Villages of the County or Hampshire, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.” In Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 4, the Great Awakening. Edited by C. C. Goen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. First published 1737.

Elliott, Emory. Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Forrer, Richard. “The Puritan Religious Dilemma: The Ethical Dimensions of God’s Sovereignty.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44, no. 4 (1976): 613-628.

Gallagher, Edward J. “‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’: Some Unfinished Business.” The New England Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2000): 202-221.

Gaustad, Edwin S. The Great Awakening in New England. New York: Harper, 1957.

———. “Society and the Great Awakening in New England.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser. 11, no. 4 (1954): 566-577.

Gerstner, John H. Steps to Salvation: The Evangelistic Message of Jonathan Edwards. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1959.

Gilpin, W. Clark. “‘Inward, Sweet Delight in God’: Solitude in the Career of Jonathan Edwards.” The Journal of Religion 82, no. 4 (2002): 523-538.

Grasso, Christopher. “Images and Shadows of Jonathan Edwards.” American Literary History 8, no. 4 (1996): 683-98.

Gustafson, Sandra M. Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Hall, David D. “Jonathan Edwards in His Time, and in Ours.” Book Review. Modern Intellectual History 1, no. 3 (2004): 387-398.

Hall, Timothy D. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Holbrook, Clyde A. The Ethics of Jonathan Edwards: Morality and Aesthetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973.

Lambert, Frank. “The Great Awakening as Artifact: George Whitefield and the Construction of Intercolonial Revival, 1739-1745.” Church History 60, no. 2 (1991): 223-246.

———. Inventing the Great Awakening. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

———. “‘Pedlar in Divinity’: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening.” The Journal of American History 77, no. 3 (1990): 812-837.

Lee, Sang Hyun, ed. The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Lesser, M. X. Jonathan Edwards. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Lukasik, Christopher. “Feeling the Force of Certainty: The Divine Science, Newtonianism, and Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’.” The New England Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2000): 222-245.

Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

McDermott, Gerald R. Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology,Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Miller, Perry. Jonathan Edwards. New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1949.

Pope, Robert G. The Half-Way Covenant: Church Membership in Puritan New England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Reaske, Christopher R. “The Devil and Jonathan Edwards.” Journal of the History of Ideas 33, no. 1 (January – March 1972): 123-138.

Simonson, Harold P. Jonathan Edwards: Theologian of the Heart. Grand Rapids, MA: Eerdmans, 1974.

Smith, John E., Harry S. Stout, and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds. A Jonathan Edwards Reader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. Reprint, 2003.

Stout, Harry S. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Stuart, Robert Lee. “Jonathan Edwards at Enfield: ‘and Oh the Cheerfulness and Pleasantness…'” American Literature 48, no. 1 (1976): 46-59.

Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth Century Northampton. New York: Hill and Wang, 1980.

White, Eugene E. “The Preaching of George Whitefield During the Great Awakening in America.” Speech Monographs 15, no. 1 (1948): 33-43.

———. “Puritan Preaching and the Authority of God.” In Preaching in American History: Selected Issues in the American Pulpit, 1630-1967. Edited by DeWitte Holland.

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1969.

———. Puritan Rhetoric: The Issue of Emotion in Religion. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972.

———. “Solomon Stoddard’s Theories of Persuasion.” Speech Monographs 29, no. 4 (November 1962): 235-259.

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758: A Biography. New York: Macmillan Company, 1941.

Yarbrough, Stephen R. “Jonathan Edwards on Rhetorical Authority.” Journal of the History of Ideas 47, no. 3 (1986): 395-408.

Yarbrough, Stephen R., and John C. Adams. Delightful Conviction: Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Zakai, Avihu. Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Audio-Visual Materials

Jackman, John. An Uncommon Union: The Life and Love of Sarah and Jonathan Edwards. Vision Video, 2004.

On-Line Resources

“The 17th and 18th Centuries.” Divining America: Religion and the National Culture. The National Humanities Center. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen.htm (accessed June, 2007).

Campbell, Donna. “Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).” Washington State University. http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/edwards.htm (accessed June, 2007).

Edwards, Jonathan. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” http://edwards.yale.edu/major-works/sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-god (accessed June, 2007).

“Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings.” http://www.puritansermons.com/index.htm (accessed June, 2007).

“Jonathan Edwards.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/edwards/ (accessed June, 2007).

“The Jonathan Edwards Center.” Yale University. http://edwards.yale.edu/ (accessed June, 2007).

“Jonathan Edwards: American Puritan Theologian and Philosopher.” Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Calvin College. http://www.ccel.org/e/edwards/?show=biography (accessed June, 2007).

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “An Appraisal of the Great Awakening.” The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Stanford University. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/papers/vol1/501117 An_Appraisal_of_the_Great_Awakening.htm (accessed March, 2016).

“Religion in Eighteenth-Century America.” Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html (accessed June, 2007).

Whitefield, George. “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield.” Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Calvin College. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.toc.html (accessed June, 2007).

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