What was the occasion for Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"

During the revival
period referred to as The Great Awakening, spanning the 1730s and 1740s, thousands of residents
of the English colonies (in what would become America) were hearing the word of God, becoming
converts, and growing inspired to join churches. However, the town of Enfield, Connecticut was
notoriously resistant to this religious trend. While towns all around Enfieldand all over the
New England colonies, in factwere filling with new converts, the residents of this small town
were well-known to be holdouts. As an eminent minister, Edwards evidently felt that it was
important to preach not only God's love but also the dangers of God's justice to these
recalcitrant individuals who he would have feared were destined, on their current paths, to fall
into the pit of hell, as he describes.

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