Which author is credited with a famous sermon about sin such as Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?

Which author is credited with a famous sermon about sin such as Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?

• A. Billy Sunday
• B. Washington Irving
• C. Elizabeth Scott Stam
• D. Jonathan Edwards

Answer: (D)

Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist preacher during the Great Awakening, wrote the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Its memorable, fear-inducing imagery of God’s wrath and the precariousness of human life captures Edwards’ revivalist style and 18th‑century Puritan theology, making him the clear match for that sermon. The other figures come from different contexts: Billy Sunday was a 20th‑century evangelist known for energetic revival meetings, Washington Irving was a fiction writer, and Elizabeth Scott Stam was a missionary and author, not associated with that sermon.

Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist preacher during the Great Awakening, wrote the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Its memorable, fear-inducing imagery of God’s wrath and the precariousness of human life captures Edwards’ revivalist style and 18th‑century Puritan theology, making him the clear match for that sermon. The other figures come from different contexts: Billy Sunday was a 20th‑century evangelist known for energetic revival meetings, Washington Irving was a fiction writer, and Elizabeth Scott Stam was a missionary and author, not associated with that sermon.