Sensational Evangelist of Britain and America. 131 Christians You Should Know August 8, 2008. Share ... George Whitefield was probably the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century.

If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of that century, would have been all over it. Whitefield (pronounced WIT-field), who was ...

This new biography recalls George Whitefield, the 18th-century English evangelist, as probably the most recognizable celebrity of his age. He was certainly the most traveled, crisscrossing the ...

George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire Peter Y. Choi. Eerdmans, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8028-7549-5 ...

On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, there sits a statue of one of the school’s co-founders: George Whitefield, the 18th-century British evangelist and hero of the Great Awakening.

In a notable coincidence, December 16 was also the 300th birthday of George Whitefield, the most important evangelist of the Great Awakening of the 18th century, and a thoroughly problematic figure on ...

The Rev. George Whitefield will be the talk of the town in Colonial Williamsburg today, exactly 256 years after the expressive evangelist stirred up emotions during his historic visit to Bruton ...

George Whitefield. Books. Edwards for all of us. George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern. by Sam Gee. ... December 16 was also the 300th birthday of ...

Anglican minister George Whitefield was only 25 when, in 1739, having ignited a major religious revival in his native England, he crossed the Atlantic intending to do the same in the British colonies.

Yet at the height of his popularity in the 1740s, George Whitefield, the Anglican preacher and greatest evangelist of the First Great Awakening, was probably the most famous person in the English ...

Both the Whitefield House and Nazareth trace their origin to 1740 when the Rev. George Whitefield, an English evangelist, was determined to build a school for black children and develop a ...

George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of the 18th century. Adelle M. Banks. December 16, 2014 ...