When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield

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  • When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield Book Detail

  • Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
  • Release Date : 2011-10-14
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 236
  • ISBN 13 : 1421405008
  • File Size : 89,89 MB
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When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield by Peter Charles Hoffer PDF Summary

Book Description: The story of a unique friendship in colonial America between a Founding Father and a founder of the evangelical movement. In the 1740s, two very different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought—the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement—the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield—as an opportunity to explore the meaning of the beginnings of modern science and rationality on one hand and evangelical religious enthusiasm on the other. There are people who both represent the times in which they live and change them for the better. Franklin and Whitefield were two such men. The morning that they met, they formed a long and lucrative partnership: Whitefield provided copies of his journals and sermons, Franklin published them. So began a unique, mutually profitable, and influential friendship. By focusing this study on Franklin and Whitefield, Peter Charles Hoffer defines with great precision the importance of the Anglo-American Atlantic World of the eighteenth century in American history. With a swift and persuasive narrative, Hoffer introduces readers to the respective life story of each man, examines in engaging detail the central themes of their early writings, and concludes with a description of the last years of their collaboration. Franklin’s and Whitefield’s intellectual contributions reach into our own time, making Hoffer’s enjoyable account of these extraordinary men and their extraordinary friendship relevant today.

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