Compare George Whitefield by Peter Y. Choi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Narrates the drama of a famous preacher's entire career in his historical contextGEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714-1770) is remembered as a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was also a citizen of the British Empire who used his political savvy and theological creativity to champion the cause of imperial expansion. In this religious biography of "the Grand Itinerant," Peter Choi recounts a fascinating human story and, in the process, reexamines the Great Awakening and its relationship to a fast-growing British Empire. | George Whitefield by Peter Y. Choi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters