It's Spring: Enjoy the TULIP of Calvinism While You Can

[MineralMan]

5. Calvinism isn't what it once was.

Still many denominations are based on it, whether they embrace all of it or not. It lies under those denominations' doctrines, waiting to emerge from the grave and pull people down into the earth.

In the United States, Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was transformational in part of American Life. It triggered something called "The Great Awakening." Edwards was a Congregationalist and a devout Calvinist. The entire sermon is long, but frightening when delivered by a great orator like Edwards.

There are several YouTube videos which have someone giving the sermon in various ways. I once delivered it to an audience, after memorizing it. I did my best to assume the angry voice of Jonathan Edwards. It was a performance piece, designed to show the roots of American dominionism and reconstructionistic theology. Sadly, that was before the time of video recording, so there is no record of it, except, perhaps, in the minds of that audience, who had never heard a sermon like that before.

Here is such a re-enactment. It runs about 14 minutes: