Puritans. Simple‚ direct‚ godly‚ concise. God was everything to the men and women who scorned the tradition and ceremony of the churches of their time for a simpler life where God reigned supreme. Yet‚ a comparison of three authors; Bradstreet‚ Taylor‚ and Edwards‚ shows both the stark contrast and similarities many Puritans shared in their time. While these three authors were all Puritan and their writings of God‚ their messages varied greatly in their deliverance. From a message of sorrow and rediscovering
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Baptist Theological Seminary The Life of Jonathan Edwards A Paper Submitted to Dr. Gregory Tomlin In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course American Christianity CHHI 692 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Biographical Outline 4-5 Survey of Edwards Life 5-18 Work Written By Jonathan Edwards 19-20 Bibliography 21-22 Abstract Through out Jonathan Edwards’ life he focused on preaching and expressing his views and
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Jonathan Edward’s and the Puritans have unequally different spiritual beliefs. Jonathan Edwards’s beliefs focused on seeking salvation to avoid hell. Jonathan Edward’s spiritual attitude differs greatly from those of Puritan works‚ such as from writers Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson‚ who believe one must be elected by God to go to Heaven. Their different beliefs are what lead them to have different spiritual attitudes. Puritan works are all didactic; they are all meant to teach a lesson
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Bradstreet utilizes an iambic rhythm‚ rhyming couplets‚ inverted syntax‚ and pronounced shifts in tone to exemplify Puritan ideals at the time as well as emphasize the ongoing internal battle between her attachment to material things versus her relationship with God. Throughout the poem‚ she establishes a consistent eight syllable iambic rhythm accompanied with rhyming couplets. This well structured rhythm mirrors the similar strict lifestyle of Puritans at the time‚ whose lives were often based
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individuality shifts in American literature from early Puritan beliefs to the Romanticism movement. With such a significant aspect like individuality there has been plenty of various views on the subject‚ like the difference between Emerson’s view in "Self Reliance" and Jonathan Edwards in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Many philosophical and analytical scholars comment on the idea of individuality throughout the history of mankind. Every person attempts to answer
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet Greg Saxon The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace rather than by works‚ and attacked the rigid moral and legal codes of New England Puritanism.
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Jonathan Edwards’ sermon titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” set out to persuade followers of God‚ differing in age‚ gender and social status to renounce their sinful ways and surrender to the will of God‚ which resonates through this skillfully crafted speech utilizing the power of vivid description and metaphors. Edwards the master of intense imagery utilizes metaphors in his sermon quite artfully and the first description‚ among several others which captured my attention says “The glittering
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Criticism on Anne Bradstreet In a criticism by James Ryan on Anne Bradstreet’s over all poetic history. At around 1639‚ Bradstreet became interested in the composition of many types of poetry. There was a great variety of poems that she wrote such as elegies‚ dialogues‚ religious verse‚ and love lyrics. Many of her poems were wrote about her everyday life dealing with her family or major events that occurred. Publishing a book in the seventeenth-century in England was an amazing accomplishment
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Bradstreet was very upset and angry at the beginning of the story when all of her stuff burnt in the flames because she lost everything. Nothing came out of the fire the same‚ not even herself. She was devastated about this because she watched all the stuff she worked for‚ all the stuff she bought‚ all the gifts she was given‚ all of it went down in flames. She started blaming people‚ one of those people were god. She was asking god‚ why did this have to happen to me. I didn’t do anything wrong to
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Jonathan Edwards’ persona in this sermon is powerful‚ enforcing his view of God’s power and using imagery to describe God’s wrath vividly. The tone throughout the sermon is very intense‚ creating imagery for the audience to better understand his beliefs about how an angry God deals with sinners. This is an excerpt‚ depicting the key parts of the full sermon. Throughout the sermon‚ Edwards’ use of imagery gives the audience an image of God holding the sinners over the pits of hell‚ their fates
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