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.

Product details

• Authors: Harry S. Stout
• Assisted by: Nathan O. Hatch (Editor), Mark A. Noll (Editor)
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1991
• EAN: 9780802801548
• ISBN: 978-0-8028-0154-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Series: Library of Religious Biography; Library of Religious Biography
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity