This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. [Eighteenth century pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards'] most famous composition, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" ...

I have no better remedy than anger. If I want to write, pray, preach well, then I must be angry. Then my entire blood supply refreshes itself, my mind is made keen, and all temptations depart.-Martin ...

Weirder than any of this, however, was the reaction of the audience. This thoroughly middle-class, thoroughly Left-Liberal atheistical bunch not only began quite freely to join in the interval ...