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by
Harry S. Stout (Author)
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 figures, 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.
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The Library Of Religious Biography is a series of original biographies on important religious figures throughout American and British history.
Number of Pages: 325Dimensions: 0.78 x 8.84 x 6.34 INPublication Date: March 28, 2006
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