The Divine Dramatist

<DIV>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. Although Whitefield here emerges as very much a modern figures 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.</DIV>