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The most dangerous preacher in American history. Jonathan Edwards didn't just deliver sermons, he summoned the wrath of God into a room and made his congregation feel it in their bodies. In 1741, his delivery of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" caused listeners to cry out, faint, and grip the pews in terror. The physical convulsions that overcame his audiences sparked a controversy that echoed through colonial America. This collection gathers nineteen of Edwards' most powerful sermons, including the notorious masterpiece that defined the Great Awakening. But these are not mere historical artifacts. Edwards was also America's first great philosopher-theologian, and these sermons deploy rigorous argument alongside their terrifying imagery. He wages war on easy complacency about salvation, on the comfortable notion that one can drift toward heaven. His logic is relentless, his metaphysics unforgiving. Yet beneath the fire and brimstone lies a passionate plea for genuine religious experience, for a faith that shakes you rather than soothes you. For readers drawn to the roots of American religious thought, the psychology of revival, or the sheer rhetorical power of a man who made congregations physically collapse, these sermons remain indispensable.