"Works! Works! A man get to heaven by works! I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!" With these words the Rev. George Whitefield summed up his teachings during a two-hour ...

GEORGE WHITEFIELD: AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL FOUNDING FATHER By Thomas S. Kidd Yale University Press, $38, 344 pages In the fall of 1764, George Whitefield, itinerant evangelical preacher, gave a ...

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, Jarena Lee and Charles Finney. From John Hughes to Joseph Smith, scroll to see how different people living during America's formative years influenced the current state of religion ...

A farmer in 18th century Philadelphia was out in his field one day when he thought he heard the voice of God. Later that night, a friend told him that the voice actually belonged to the Rev. George ...

The revivalist preached, ‘Come and be married to Christ’—and sparked the Great Awakening. Editor’s note: What do you get when a charismatic thespian bumps into the Wesley brothers in college? “The ...

A GREAT AWAKENING, tells the true story of an unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin ...

Edwards worried that the strong emotions raised by George Whitefield’s preaching would produce not steady Christians by religious hypocrites. It is wonderful to see what a spell he casts over an ...