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Named Person: | George Whitefield; George Whitefield |
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Document Type: | Book |
ISBN: | 0192846175 9780192846174 |
OCLC Number: | 1248897864 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 24 cm |
Contents: | List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsGeordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones: Introduction1: Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Whitefield's Personal Life and Character2: Mark K. Olson: Whitefield's Conversion and Early Theological Formation3: William Gibson: Whitefield and the Church of England4: Frank Lambert: Whitefield and the Enlightenment5: Carla Gardina Pestana: Whitefield and Empire6: Geordan Hammond: Whitefield, John Wesley, and Revival Leadership7: Kenneth P. Minkema: Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and Revival8: Keith Edward Beebe and David Ceri Jones: Whitefield and the 'Celtic' Revivals9: Brett C. McInelly: Whitefield and His Critics10: Braxton Boren: Whitefield's Voice11: Emma Salgard Cunha: Whitefield and Literary Affect12: Stephen R. Berry: Whitefield and the Atlantic13: Peter Choi: Whitefield, Georgia, and the Quest for Bethesda College14: Mark A. Noll: Whitefield, Hymnody, and Evangelical Spirituality15: Isabel Rivers: Whitefield's Reception in England, 1770-183916: Andrew Atherstone: Commemorating Whitefield in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesBibliography |
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George Whitefield is finally getting some of the scholarly attention that he deserves. * Richard P. Heitzenrater, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era * This rich volume is the product of a 2014 conference commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of Anglican evangelist George Whitefield's birth...the authors offer a bounty of new analyses, often based on underused or previously unknown primary sources, putting Whitefield more fully into his eighteenth-century British context. * Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University, The Journal of Religion * In summary this volume is a highly recommended introduction to the current state of play in Whitefield scholarship for specialist and student alike. * Judith Rossall, Holiness * George Whitefield shows that Whitefield the man and Whitefield the preacher continues to captivate the public imagination; that over 300 years since his birth, his voice still cries out. * Randall J. Pederson, Journal of Reformed Theology * [T]his volume offers some tantalizing new ways for approaching George Whitefield's life and relevance: not an easy task for a historical figure about whom so much has already been written. * Jessica M. Parr, Church History and Religious Culture * Here is a volume that needs to be in every library, whether historical or theological. Those wishing to embark on intentional reading about Whitefield and the period of the Awakening ought to start with select chapters from this volume. Doing so would clear away considerable clutter and help one to distinguish between hagiography and serious biography. * Kenneth J. Stewart, Calvin Theological Journal * The book roars to life with Boyd Schlenther's opening chapter which calls into question much of the received opinion concerning George Whitefield and signals what seems to be the editorial mandate of the work: a reappraisal of an evangelist whom everyone knows, yet knows so little about. Schlenther's cogently argued, bracing essay is a particularly notable example of the kind of engagement the volume, in the main, delivers. * Joel Houston, Churchman * In sum, this collection of essays on George Whitefield is an important work that portends a shift in the traditional views of Whitefield, the man and the minister. * Joel Houston, Churchman * These essays are a remarkable reappraisal of Whitefield in his personal, theological, ecclesiastical, philosophical, political, and geographic contexts...This collection has made a significant contribution to the study of Whitefield and will hopefully encourage further scholarly inquiry into his life and times. * Reading Religion * this volume, deftly edited and very well produced, will be an essential quarry for Whitefield scholars, and for historians of Methodism as a whole, for decades to come. * G. M. Ditchfield, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture * a fascinating book * English Churchman * Read more...