Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones: Introduction
1: Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Whitefield's Personal Life and Character
2: Mark K. Olson: Whitefield's Conversion and Early Theological Formation
3: William Gibson: Whitefield and the Church of England
4: Frank Lambert: Whitefield and the Enlightenment
5: Carla Gardina Pestana: Whitefield and Empire
6: Geordan Hammond: Whitefield, John Wesley, and Revival Leadership
7: Kenneth P. Minkema: Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and Revival
8: Keith Edward Beebe and David Ceri Jones: Whitefield and the 'Celtic' Revivals
9: Brett C. McInelly: Whitefield and His Critics
10: Braxton Boren: Whitefield's Voice
11: Emma Salgård Cunha: Whitefield and Literary Affect
12: Stephen R. Berry: Whitefield and the Atlantic
13: Peter Choi: Whitefield, Georgia, and the Quest for Bethesda College
14: Mark A. Noll: Whitefield, Hymnody, and Evangelical Spirituality
15: Isabel Rivers: Whitefield's Reception in England, 1770-1839
16: Andrew Atherstone: Commemorating Whitefield in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Bibliography

About the Author

Geordan Hammond is Research Assistant for the Leverhulme Trust Project 'George Whitefield and Trans-Atlantic Protestantism' at Aberystwyth University and is Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Wesley Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. David Ceri Jones is a Reader in Welsh and Atlantic History at Aberystwyth University.

Reviews

George Whitefield is finally getting some of the scholarly attention that he deserves.
*Richard P. Heitzenrater, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era*

This rich volume is the product of a 2014 conference commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of Anglican evangelist George Whitefield's birth...the authors offer a bounty of new analyses, often based on underused or previously unknown primary sources, putting Whitefield more fully into his eighteenth-century British context.
*Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University, The Journal of Religion*

In summary this volume is a highly recommended introduction to the current state of play in Whitefield scholarship for specialist and student alike.
*Judith Rossall, Holiness*

George Whitefield shows that Whitefield the man and Whitefield the preacher continues to captivate the public imagination; that over 300 years since his birth, his voice still cries out.
*Randall J. Pederson, Journal of Reformed Theology*

[T]his volume offers some tantalizing new ways for approaching George Whitefield's life and relevance: not an easy task for a historical figure about whom so much has already been written.
*Jessica M. Parr, Church History and Religious Culture*

Here is a volume that needs to be in every library, whether historical or theological. Those wishing to embark on intentional reading about Whitefield and the period of the Awakening ought to start with select chapters from this volume. Doing so would clear away considerable clutter and help one to distinguish between hagiography and serious biography.
*Kenneth J. Stewart, Calvin Theological Journal*

The book roars to life with Boyd Schlenther's opening chapter which calls into question much of the received opinion concerning George Whitefield and signals what seems to be the editorial mandate of the work: a reappraisal of an evangelist whom everyone knows, yet knows so little about. Schlenther's cogently argued, bracing essay is a particularly notable example of the kind of engagement the volume, in the main, delivers.
*Joel Houston, Churchman*

In sum, this collection of essays on George Whitefield is an important work that portends a shift in the traditional views of Whitefield, the man and the minister.
*Joel Houston, Churchman*

These essays are a remarkable reappraisal of Whitefield in his personal, theological, ecclesiastical, philosophical, political, and geographic contexts...This collection has made a significant contribution to the study of Whitefield and will hopefully encourage further scholarly inquiry into his life and times.
*Reading Religion*

this volume, deftly edited and very well produced, will be an essential quarry for Whitefield scholars, and for historians of Methodism as a whole, for decades to come.
*G. M. Ditchfield, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture*

a fascinating book
*English Churchman*