The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography Series)
by Harry S. Stout, John B Madden Master of Berkeley College and Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity Harry S Stout
Category: Religion

Harry Stout draws on a number of sources to outline the spectacular career of George Whitfield, commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular eighteenth-century preacher. Although Whitfield was given to self-promotion and theatricality, Stout shows that he was also sincere in is concern for the spiritual welfare of the thousands to whom he preached.