Epstein Secrets

mbolic interpretative view. This notion of resonance may also be useful in understanding other kinds of language impact from the fiery sermon of Edwards to the passionate speeches of Obama and Kennedy and King. In listening to speech that has impact, language has created a state in the listener th

take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and su

n he was about to preach would become one of the most famously electrifying orations in American history, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Edwards preached this sermon during the massive transatlantic religious revival that gave rise to Methodism in England and came to be known in the Americ

f clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards's sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale Univers

sceral in sermons. Consider the power of Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, which Clark Gilpin’s chapter discusses,

we take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and suffer

ermon he was about to preach would become one of the most famously electrifying orations in American history, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards preached this sermon during the massive transatlantic religious revival that gave rise to Methodism in England and came to be known in the American c

ts of clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University