George Whitefield : America's spiritual founding father /: America's spiritual founding father. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas S. Kidd.
• Authors: Kidd, Thomas S
• Contents: "The circumstance of my being born in an inn" : George Whitefield and eighteenth-century England -- "The day star arose in my heart" : Whitefield's conversion -- "God is preparing me for something extraordinary" : Whitefield the Methodist missionary -- "The fiery trial of popularity" : George Whitefield, field preacher -- "A tour round America" : the American South and the Bethesda orphanage -- "To revive the flame again" : Whitefield comes to New England -- "Hearing him preach, gave me a heart wound" : Calvinist preaching, Calvinist controversy -- "Thy maker is thy husband" : Whitefield goes to Scotland -- "Close attacks, but strong consolations" : the return to America -- "Hunting in the American woods" : Whitefield, slavery, and evangelical radicalism -- "As I grew moderate" : Whitefield mends rivalries -- "This pilgrimage kind of life" : the end of Whitefield's travels -- Conclusion: "Jesus Christ has got thee at last" : George Whitefield's legacy.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 325 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 269/.2092; Evangelists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Evangelists -- United States -- Biography; Prédicateurs -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies; Prédicateurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical; HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious; RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Spiritual Growth; Evangelists; United States -- Church history; États-Unis -- Histoire religieuse; Great Britain; United States; collective biographies; Biographies; Church history; Biographies; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300182125; 0300182120; 0300181620; 9780300181623
• Related ISBNs: 9780300181623; 0300181620; 9780300223583; 0300223587
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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