num_pages: 325
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 figure, 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.
language: English
title: The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
titlecomplete: The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography)
characters: George Whitefield
genres: History, Religion, Theology, Church History, American History, Biography, Christian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.