George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))
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- Synopsis
- Narrates the drama of a famous preacher&’s entire career in his historical contextGEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714–1770) is remembered as a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was also a citizen of the British Empire who used his political savvy and theological creativity to champion the cause of imperial expansion. In this religious biography of &“the Grand Itinerant,&” Peter Choi recounts a fascinating human story and, in the process, reexamines the Great Awakening and its relationship to a fast-growing British Empire.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 240 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781467450430
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780802875495
- Publisher:
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
- Date of Addition:
- 01/14/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Y. Choi
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Mark A. Noll