Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. 1. “The Circumstance of My Being Born in an Inn”: George Whitefield and Eighteenth-Century England 5
5. 2. “THE DAY STAR AROSE IN MY HEART”: WHITEFIELD’S CONVERSION 20
6. 3. “GOD IS PREPARING ME FOR SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY”: WHITEFIELD THE METHODIST MISSIONARY 38
7. 4. “THE FIERY TRIAL OF POPULARITY”: GEORGE WHITEFIELD, FIELD PREACHER 58
8. 5. “A TOUR ROUND AMERICA”: THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND THE BETHESDA ORPHANAGE 84
9. 6. “TO REVIVE THE FLAME AGAIN”: WHITEFIELD COMES TO NEW ENGLAND 106
10. 7. “HEARING HIM PREACH, GAVE ME A HEART WOUND”: CALVINIST PREACHING, CALVINIST CONTROVERSY 130
11. 8. “THY MAKER IS THY HUSBAND”: WHITEFIELD GOES TO SCOTLAND 148
12. 9. “CLOSE ATTACKS, BUT STRONG CONSOLATIONS”: THE RETURN TO AMERICA 170
13. 10. “HUNTING IN THE AMERICAN WOODS”: WHITEFIELD, SLAVERY, AND EVANGELICAL RADICALISM 188
14. 11. “AS I GREW MODERATE”: WHITEFIELD MENDS RIVALRIES 204
15. 12. “THIS PILGRIMAGE KIND OF LIFE”: THE END OF WHITEFIELD’S TRAVELS 225
16. CONCLUSION: “JESUS CHRIST HAS GOT THEE AT LAST”: GEORGE WHITEFIELD’S LEGACY 248
17. NOTES 265
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 311
19. INDEX 313