Critically discuss Michael Wigglesworths The Day of Doom and Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” as salvific works of literature. What literary and rhetorical strategies account for their wide popularity at the time? What factors, in your opinion, account for their diminished reputation in the 20th and 21st centuries? Include direct quotes from Wigglesworths The Day of Doom and Edwardss Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God for analysis and support.
