Jonathan Edwards traveled a few miles from his home into western Connecticut and read to a small congregation assembled there the most famous sermon ever delivered in the history of America on this day in 1741. Entitled Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, its subject was the immanence of judgment and the horrors of perdition. It was about what …
The Lesser of Two Evils?
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894), theologian, editor, anthologist, biographer, and great-great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards “Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.” “Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.” “Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.” “Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would …