When Benjamin Franklin met the Reverend Whitefield
Subtitle: enlightenment, revival, and the power of the printed word
By: Peter Charles Hoffer
Series: Witness to history
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781421403113; 9781421403120
Subjects: Evangelists; Philosophy; Intellectual life; Great Awakening; Scientists; Church history; Enlightenment; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A momentous meeting; title: A partnership of mutual convenience; title: Franklin becomes a printer and Whitefield becomes a preacher; title: Whitefield's messages of hope; title: Franklin's essays on improvement; title: A great awakening, the enlightenment, and the crisis of provincialism; title: The birth of the modern world.