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When Benjamin Franklin met the Reverend Whitefield : enlightenment, revival, and the power of the printed word / Peter Charles Hoffer.
Van Pelt Library E302.6.F8 H67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Series:
- Witness to history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Philosophy.
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
- Whitefield, George.
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Enlightenment--United States.
- Enlightenment.
- Great Awakening.
- United States--Church history--To 1775.
- Church history.
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Evangelists--United States--Biography.
- Evangelists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- In the 1740s, two quite 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 one of the most unique, mutually profitable, and influential friendships in early American history.
- 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 readable and enjoyable account of these extraordinary men and their extraordinary friendship relevant today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A momentous meeting
- A partnership of mutual convenience
- Franklin becomes a printer and Whitefield becomes a preacher
- Whitefield's messages of hope
- Franklin's essays on improvement
- A great awakening, the enlightenment, and the crisis of provincialism
- The birth of the modern world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421403113
- 1421403110
- 9781421403120
- 1421403129
- OCLC:
- 706677618
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