Student Research Symposium Program Portal: Submission #45

Abstract Looking at the Sermons of brilliant clergymen of the First Great Awakening I found that they all used an expository format but the ratio of Law and Gospel differed depending on the Sermons goal. Such as Jonathan Edwards sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is focused on condemning his congregations complacency in their sin, but other Sermons focused on the salvation provided by Jesus's death on the cross. However the importance of their Sermons to the spread of Awakening ideals is expansive as the development of Edwards ideas of correcting the complacency of his congregation spread throughout the American colonies and through George Whitfield spread to Europe.