God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,`` Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive.
What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father\'s.
Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell.
Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards\'s wrathful God.
God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,`` Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive