The John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College and professor of American religious history at Yale University.
Summary
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, 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.