In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” the listeners are meant to feel scared.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was a sermon written by Jonathan Edwards, a British Colonial Christian theologian. He preached this sermon to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts yet its effects were unknown. Edwards’s sermon was a common sermon about the Great Awakening, wherein the belief that Hell is real was emphasized.
