Mark A Noll
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 252 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Narrates the drama of a famous preacher?s career in his historical context. George 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...