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

John B Madden Master of Berkeley College and Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity Harry S Stout; Nathan O Hatch; Mark a Noll
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
 9780802801548
0-8028-0154-4

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.

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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.