Informationen zum Autor Geordan Hammond is Research Assistant for the Leverhulme Trust Project 'George Whitefield and Trans-Atlantic Protestantism' at Aberystwyth University and is Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Wesley Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester.David Ceri Jones is a Reader in Welsh and Atlantic History at Aberystwyth University. Klappentext A collection of essays on the life, career, and reception of the eighteenth-century evangelical preacher, George Whitefield (1714-70). Zusammenfassung A collection of essays on the life, career, and reception of the eighteenth-century evangelical preacher, George Whitefield (1714-70). Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones: Introduction; 1 Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Whitefield's Personal Life and Character; 2 Mark K. Olson: Whitefield's Conversion and Early Theological Formation; 3 William Gibson: Whitefield and the Church of England; 4 Frank Lambert: Whitefield and the Enlightenment; 5 Carla Gardina Pestana: Whitefield and Empire; 6 Geordan Hammond: Whitefield, John Wesley, and Revival Leadership; 7 Kenneth P. Minkema: Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and Revival; 8 Keith Edward Beebe and David Ceri Jones: Whitefield and the 'Celtic' Revivals; 9 Brett C. McInelly: Whitefield and His Critics; 10 Braxton Boren: Whitefield's Voice; 11 Emma Salgard Cunha: Whitefield and Literary Affect; 12 Stephen R. Berry: Whitefield and the Atlantic; 13 Peter Choi: Whitefield, Georgia, and the Quest for Bethesda College; 14 Mark A. Noll: Whitefield, Hymnody, and Evangelical Spirituality; 15 Isabel Rivers: Whitefield's Reception in England, 1770-1839; 16 Andrew Atherstone: Commemorating Whitefield in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Bibliography

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Klappentext

A collection of essays on the life, career, and reception of the eighteenth-century evangelical preacher, George Whitefield (1714-70).

Inhalt

List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones: Introduction; 1 Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Whitefield's Personal Life and Character; 2 Mark K. Olson: Whitefield's Conversion and Early Theological Formation; 3 William Gibson: Whitefield and the Church of England; 4 Frank Lambert: Whitefield and the Enlightenment; 5 Carla Gardina Pestana: Whitefield and Empire; 6 Geordan Hammond: Whitefield, John Wesley, and Revival Leadership; 7 Kenneth P. Minkema: Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and Revival; 8 Keith Edward Beebe and David Ceri Jones: Whitefield and the 'Celtic' Revivals; 9 Brett C. McInelly: Whitefield and His Critics; 10 Braxton Boren: Whitefield's Voice; 11 Emma Salgard Cunha: Whitefield and Literary Affect; 12 Stephen R. Berry: Whitefield and the Atlantic; 13 Peter Choi: Whitefield, Georgia, and the Quest for Bethesda College; 14 Mark A. Noll: Whitefield, Hymnody, and Evangelical Spirituality; 15 Isabel Rivers: Whitefield's Reception in England, 1770-1839; 16 Andrew Atherstone: Commemorating Whitefield in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Bibliography