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

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

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

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