George Whitefield
Subtitle: America's Spiritual Founding Father
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300181623
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "The circumstance of my being born in an inn" : George Whitefield and eighteenth-century England; title: "The day star arose in my heart" : Whitefield's conversion; title: "God is preparing me for something extraordinary" : Whitefield the Methodist missionary; title: The fiery trial of popularity" : George Whitefield, field preacher; title: "A tour round America" : the American South and the Bethesda orphanage; title: "To revive the flame again" : Whitefield comes to New England; title: "Hearing him preach, gave me a heart wound" : Calvinist preaching, Calvinist controversy; title: "Thy maker is thy husband" : Whitefield goes to Scotland; title: "Close attacks, but strong consolations" : the return to America; title: "Hunting in the American woods" : Whitefield, slavery, and evangelical radicalism; title: "As I grew moderate" : Whitefield mends rivalries; title: "This pilgrimage kind of life" : the end of Whitefield's travels; title: Conclusion : "Jesus Christ has got thee at last" : George Whitefield's legacy