The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism

by Harry S. Stout

Overview

Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass audiences across two continents through his personal charisma. Harry Stout draws on a number of sources, including the newspapers of Whitefield's day, to outline his subject's spectacular career as a public figure. Although Whitefield here emerges as very much a modern figures, given to shameless self-promotion and extravagant theatricality, Stout also shows that he was from first to last a Calvinist, earnest in his support of orthodox theological tenets and sincere in his concern for the spiritual welfare of the thousands to whom he preached.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802801548
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/09/1991
Series:	Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	325
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Nathan O. Hatch
Introduction

1. The Young Rake
2. Oxford Odd Fellow
3. London Boy Preacher
4. Colonial Missionary
5. London Field Preacher
6. American Awakener
7. A New Religious History
8. Scottish Stranger Preacher
9. Women and Marriage
10. Growing Up
11. Revivals in a New Key
12. An Uncommon Friendship
13. Dr. Squintum
14. American Icon
15. Final Scene

A Note on the Sources
Index

Editorial Reviews

Christianity Today, Number 1 Critics Choice for Biography and History (1992)

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