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Biography. George Whitefield was born on December 27, 1714 (December 16 of the Julian calendar), in Gloucester, England. The youngest of seven children, he was born in the Bell Inn where his father, Thomas, was a wine merchant and innkeeper. His father died when George was two and his widowed mother Elizabeth struggled to provide for her family.
22 de ago. de 2020 · George Whitefield fue probablemente la figura religiosa más famosa del siglo XVIII. Los periódicos le llamaban «la maravilla de la época». Whitefield era un predicador capaz de comandar a miles en dos continentes a través del poder puro de su oratoria. En su vida, predicó por lo menos 18.000 veces a tal vez 10 millones de oyentes.
12 de may. de 2016 · George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century. For a time in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Whitefield was the most famous person on both sides of the Atlantic. An Anglican clergyman, Whitefield soon transcended his denominational context as his itinerant ministry fuelled a Protestant renewal ...
Hace 2 días · An Anglican minister, George Whitefield (1714–1770) was converted through the friendship of the great hymn-writer Charles Wesley, and was also a life-long friend of Charles’s brother John ...
Abstract. This introduction to the volume provides in the first instance a brief overview of George Whitefield’s life and career, delineating its main features, and highlighting Whitefield’s key interests and achievements. The most substantial section examines Whitefield’s attempts to shape his public image during his lifetime, through ...
George Whitefield (1714-1770) was a notable evangelist of the Great Awakening in 1700s America who turned the Christian evangelical revival into an inter-colonial or “national” movement. Whitefield was a Calvinist Anglican minister in the Church of England who studied at Oxford University with Methodism founders John and Charles Wesley.
George Whitefield (16. december 1714 – 30. september 1770) eller George Whitfield var en engelsk anglikansk præst, der tilsluttede sig metodismen (stiftet af John Wesley), hvor han virkede som en dygtig prædikant. Særligt i Wales med dens kulminer fik Whitefields prædikener stor tilslutning.
