George Whitefield Tercentenary Essays

This special issue of The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture comprises some of the papers delivered at the George Whitefield after Three Hundred Years International Conference held in June 2014 at Pembroke College, Oxford, commemorating the tercentenary of George Whitefields birth in 1714. The Revd George Whitefield (171470) was a very important early Methodist leader, clergyman and writer, who has not attracted as much scholarly attention as John and Charles Wesley. This interdisciplinary volume contains articles on George Whitefield and the Secession Movements Reaction to the Cambuslang Revival by Kenneth B. E. Roxburgh; George Whitefield and Anti-Methodist Allegations of Popery, c.1738c.1750 by Simon Lewis; Latitudinarian responses to Whitefield, c.17401790 by G. M. Ditchfield; Preachers, prints and portraits: Methodists and image in Georgian Britain by Peter S. Forsaith, with eight attractive images; George Whitefields Journals: A Publishing Phenomenon by Digby James; and George Whitefields Reception in Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Theology by Maximilian J. Hlzl.