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George Whitefield (/ ˈ hw ɪ t f iː l d /; 27 December [O.S. 16 December] 1714 – 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
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Jan 8, 2014 · George Whitefield was the most spectacular preacher of the First Great Awakening in Britain and America, drawing revival audiences reported in the tens of thousands. News accounts of these meetings drew the attention of many, including Whitefield’s friend and publisher, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia. I recently interviewed Braxton Boren ...
- Thomas Kidd
Feb 3, 2009 · The facts about George Whitefield’s preaching as an eighteenth-century itinerant evangelist are almost unbelievable. Can they really be true? Judging by multiple attestations of his contemporaries — and by the agreement of sympathetic and unsympathetic biographers — they seem to be so.
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Billy Graham? Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones? The ‘prince of preachers’, Charles Haddon Spurgeon? Such an exercise is futile, as there are many preachers in different times and countries that most will never hear of, and it is impossible to make a proper comparison. Sound recording is a relatively recent invention in the history of the church, and it is onl...
George Whitefield was born on 16 December 1714 (27 December 1714 on our current calendar)6in the city of Gloucester at the Bell Inn, Southgate Street, near the central crossroads. He was the youngest of seven children of Thomas and Elizabeth Whitefield. He was baptized in the font of nearby St Mary de Crypt. His parents owned and ran the Inn that h...
In the autumn of 1732 he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford as a servitor. He did all the chores for those students whose families could afford to pay for their tuition. Working in an inn had trained him perfectly for such tasks. This made him popular with the wealthier students. He started attending church regularly, singing psalms and praying da...
Whitefield had promised to send back to his friends and supporters an account of his journey to Savannah. This he supplied, intending it for private circulation. But a printer, Thomas Cooper, seeing the chance of a good profit, published the second half of this journal. A friend of Whitefield, James Hutton, was thus driven to publish that journal i...
He returned to London in December 1738 in order to be ordained as a Church of England priest and began preaching in various places. He found that some churches were now closed to him because of his teaching. But others welcomed him. Whitefield found the crowds that wanted to hear him often would not fit into the church buildings. He began to realis...
Before his second visit to America, Whitefield had formed an emotional attachment to Elizabeth Delamotte. Whitefield had preached around the Blackheath area of what is now south-east London, not far from the Delamotte family home at Blendon Hall. He appears to have struggled with conflicting thoughts. On the one hand he was determined that he would...
Whitefield’s first contact with the evangelicals in Wales was a letter written to Howell Harris in December 1738. Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, had been operating circulating schools and instructing people in the Scriptures. The work was carried on by Harris. Harris had been converted in 1735 and had begun open air preaching as his bishop would not ...
Whitefield corresponded with several people in Scotland, including the Erskines. The Erskines had separated from the Church of Scotland and formed The Associate Presbytery. In a letter to Ebenezer Erskine, Whitefield explained why he could not solely join himself to The Associate Presbytery, and was concerned, as an ‘occasional preacher’ to spread ...
In America in 1740 Whitefield began a preaching tour northwards. With publicity and distribution of printed sermons and notices in the press, the public was aware that he was coming and where he would be preaching. But unusual effects attended his services, whether within church buildings or in the open air. Many people who had come merely out of c...
Whitefield would have had a Gloucester accent, very different from what is now considered ‘received pronunciation’ (also known as ‘BBC English’). His early theatrical practice prepared him for projecting his voice. But even though he had a well-trained voice it must have been one of immense power. Even allowing for some exaggeration in the size of ...
Sep 26, 2024 · George Whitefield, Church of England evangelist who by his popular preaching stimulated the 18th-century Protestant revival throughout Britain and in the British American colonies. He played a leading part in the Great Awakening and in the early Methodist movement.
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George Whitefield was indisputably the most popular preacher of the Evangelical Revival in Great Britain and the Great Awakening in America. His unrivaled preaching ability, evangelistic fervor, and irregular methods paved the way for the Protestant multidenominational system that developed in America as well as the American Revolution itself.
