| The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism Contributor(s): Stout, Harry S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802801544 ISBN-13: 9780802801548 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $33.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1991 Annotation: The Library Of Religious Biography is a series of original biographies on important religious figures throughout American and British history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Ministry - Evangelism |
| Dewey: 269.209 |
| LCCN: 91013549 |
| Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.34" W x 8.84" (1.08 lbs) 325 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Evangelical - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - Home Schooling |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |