Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God logos/pathos/ethos

In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards emphasizes a lot on pathos. He frightens the audience with his fiery sermon, but then gives them hope by saying they can be reborn into their religion and saved from the flaming pits of hell. This helps comfort the audience from the harsh reality of his logos, where he implies everyone will go to hell because they are all sinners, and god was holding them over the flaming pits of hell. In terms of ethos, Edwards showed a bit of expert testimony when he alluded to the bible due to him being a minister. Because of his position within the church, I believe his ethos was the strongest. People believed him and listened carefully as he spoke, and this helped strengthen his pathos and logos.

Logos

-Because everyone is a sinner, everyone will go to hell.

Pathos

-he frightens the audience, then transitions into the opening of the lion king.

-fear to hope.

Ethos

-because he’s a minister, people would be willing to listen to him.

-when alluding to the bible, he is using expert testimony to back up his point.