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

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.

Author: Harry S. Stout
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 09/01/1991
Pages: 325
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.34w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780802801548

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/02/1991

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