Introduction / Andrew Atherstone. Commemorating Whitefield in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Boyd Stanley Schlenther -- Whitefield's conversion and early theological formation / Mark K. Olson -- Whitefield and the Church of England / William Gibson -- Whitefield and the Enlightenment / Frank Lambert -- Whitefield and empire / Carla Gardina Pestana -- Whitefield, John Wesley, and revival leadership / Geordan Hammond -- Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and revival / Kenneth P. Minkema -- Whitefield and the 'Celtic' revivals / Keith Edward Beebe and David Ceri Jones -- Whitefield and his critics / Brett C. McInelly -- Whitefield's voice / Braxton Boren -- Whitefield and literary affect / Emma Salgård Cunha -- Whitefield and the Atlantic / Stephen R. Berry -- Whitefield, Georgia, and the quest for Bethesda College / Peter Choi -- Whitefield, hymnody, and evangelical spirituality / Mark A. Noll -- Whitefield's reception in England, 1770-1839 / Isabel Rivers -- Commemorating Whitefield in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Andrew Atherstone.
Summary:
George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century. This collection offers a major reassessment of Whitefield's life, context, and legacy, bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. In chapters that cover historical, theological, and literary themes, many addressed for the first time, the volume suggests that Whitefield was a highly complex figure who has been much misunderstood.
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