Essays Tagged: "Jonathan Edwards"

Early American Writers

rican writers there is one common trait among all the writings: religion. Among Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards all speak of their opinion of religion, god, heaven, and material things. An ... he sky . . . ' and remember these things do not matter, what matters is her 'house on high.' Jonathan Edwards also found comfort in god, 'leading me to sweet contemplations of my great and glor ...

(2 pages) 92 0 4.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Hester, What a Change! Refers to character in Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter".

to enable me to keep these resolutions so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ sake.' (Jonathan Edwards) And they had over fourteen resolutions to keep. Although this is Jonathan Edwards ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Arron Burr's life

ough to have made him famous.His father was Princeton's second president; his maternal grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, was Princeton's third president. The younger Aaron Burr was left an orphan when he ...

(3 pages) 36 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Who loves Jonathan Edwards and the first Great Awakening? This essay analyzes both him and and his movement

in the seventeenth century.The Great Awakening began in 1730s and continued onward into the 1740s. Jonathan Edwards was the first to start this inspiring revival in Northampton, Massachusetts. A theo ...

(2 pages) 62 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

An essay on Jonathan Edward's speech "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

, religious people believe that God protects them, and that by being religious they are "saved." In Jonathan Edwards' legendary sermon, that lasted six hours long, we get just the opposite impression. ...

(3 pages) 82 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Gary Soto's "The Pie"

Literary Analysis on Gary Soto's "The Pie"Prominent American authors such as Mark Twain, Jonathan Edwards, and Nathan Hawthorne extensively emphasize in their works the role guilt plays in ...

(2 pages) 42 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How did Byrd, Edwards, & Franklin differ in their religious outlook?

William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, and Benjamin Franklin were three well know and respected me around the same time p ... versa. William Byrd II was an aspiring English cavalier; at the end, a protean Enlightenment figure.Jonathan Edwards was a very admirable and enthusiastic preacher. His father and grandfather were min ...

(2 pages) 36 0 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and poems by Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet.

his year in semester one, such as, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "Sarah Pierrepont", by Jonathan Edwards, and "To My Dear and Loving Husband", by Anne Bradstreet.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The ... r young age.The second work in which love is a present theme is the address, "Sarah Pierrepont", by Jonathan Edwards, who wrote it when he was twenty. The address is about his future wife before he ha ...

(3 pages) 38 1 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Andrew Jackson: Brief reporn on Andrew Jackson (elected in 1828 and 1832)

from growing up on the Carolina Piedmont with Germans, Swiss, and Native Americans. Descended from Jonathan Edwards, Jackson possessed a reckless spirit and flaring temper, even as a youth. To furthe ...

(4 pages) 61 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The relevance between a character's philosophy of death and his way of living.

merican literature, an individuals' perception of death reflects upon his approach towards life. In Jonathan Edwards' Puritan revival, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Herman Melville's realist ... poem, "Thanatopsis", distinct representations of death greatly affect several individuals' actions. Jonathan Edwards, a prominent leader of the Great Awakening, depicts death as a formidable punishmen ...

(5 pages) 79 1 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Benjamin Franklin/Jonathan Edwards- A Comparison

Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin are two major figures in history. Edwards was a very religiou ... om similar. Edwards was very committed to his religion, and did much more than the average Puritan. Jonathan Edwards was a Puritan minister and wrote the very famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an ... ot religious at all. He was a scientist, and really did not have time in his life for faith. Jonathan Edwards, from his sermon did not give specific reasons for his goal to be saved, but he pro ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Early Puritan and Pilgrim Literature

rnal of the events that took place on the journey over on the Mayflower and life within the colony. Jonathan Edwards, a minister during the Great Awakening wrote the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an ... use their works to glorify God and announce themselves among the unconditionally elect. The fourth, Jonathan Edwards wrote a sermon in an attempt to scare followers in to the more strict puritans ways ...

(4 pages) 57 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

American Pageant Chapter 5 IDs

1. Took place from 1720 to the 1740s2. Was an intense revival of interest in religion3. Men such as Jonathan Edwards preached the importance of religionHistorical Significance: The Great Awakening fla ... ge Whitefield was a very influential preacher who helped convert thousands of people to ChristianityJonathan Edwards1. Most important theologian in the Great Awakening2. Calvinist who believed justifi ...

(2 pages) 18 0 4.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Dramatic appeal comparison in "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" and " Speech in the Virginia Convention"

s bring them to life by the use of repetition, rhetorical questions, and imagery. Patrick Henry and Jonathan Edwards both apply similar persuasive techniques, but they differ in the type of appeal to ... the audience. It makes the audience consider the idea with little time to adopt their own opinion. Jonathan Edwards asks a lot of rhetorical questions to only make hell seem worse. Edwards also uses ...

(3 pages) 32 0 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Views of transcendentalism versus puritanism; looking at "sinners in the hands of an angry god" by johnathan edwards and "nature" by ralph waldo emerson.

lings are triumphant over logic and rationality. In contrast to the plain style of Puritan writing, Jonathan Edwards frequently strikes his audience with powerful words in his literature. He exemplifi ... n God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up," (Jonathan Edwards). Edwards uses the phrase "Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up" to evide ...

(4 pages) 62 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Egoism of Jonathan Edwards

As a preacher, revivalist, philosopher and theologian, Jonathan Edwards echoes through the history of America as the foremost Christian thinker of the 18th ... stereotype, not allowed to fully reveal the preacher's thoughts. This paper examines the ethics of Jonathan Edwards compared to the ethic of egoism first outlined by Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan. C ... his paper reveals the similarities between the egoism of men like Hobbes and the righteous piety of Jonathan Edwards. First, precision demands that a clarification of terms concerning egoism. I ...

(12 pages) 44 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The Great Awakening with Jonathan Edwards

d, prizing feeling more than thinking, and relying on biblical revelation rather than human reason. Jonathan Edwards, sometimes known as the postmillennialist's postmillennialist, is best known for hi ... charged sermons, all the more powerful because they were delivered extemporaneously, preachers like Jonathan Edwards evoked vivid, terrifying images of the utter corruption of human nature and the ter ...

(6 pages) 68 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Gothicism Embedded in Religion: Comparing Jonathan Edwards to American Gothic Authors: Compares Jonathan Edwards, Charles Brockden Brown's "Weiland", and Edgar Allan Poe

divine with the sinister. The sermons and personal narratives of America's most famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, are evidence of the level of extreme religious fanaticism of the time period and i ... darkness that was embedded in religion, gothic literature was born. Through comparing the works of Jonathan Edwards to the gothic novel Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown, and to the later short stori ...

(12 pages) 50 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Puritanism and Total Depravity

eelings are dominant over logic and rationality. In contrast to the plain style of Puritan writing, Jonathan Edwards frequently uses striking words to capture his audience.He illustrates this style in ...

(3 pages) 16 0 5.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Any time the Great Awakening is discussed from a religious standpoint, the religious figures Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield are two names that are difficult not to discuss. Jonathan Edw ... lled Methodism. For these reasons, George Whitefield is one of the keystones to the Great Awakening.Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield are very similar in many ways. Both were extraordinary preach ...

(6 pages) 23 0 4.3 Apr/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity