George Whitefield also known as George Whitfield, (December 16, 1714 - September 30, 1770), an Anglica
George Whitefield also known as George Whitfield, (December 16, 1714 - September 30, 1770), an Anglican itinerant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. He was born at the Bell Inn, Southgate Street, Gloucester, England. He was a very influential figure in the establishment of Methodism. He was famous for his preaching in America which was a significant part of an 18th century movement of Christian revivals, sometimes called "The Great Awakening." George Whitefield was the son of a widow who kept an inn at Gloucester. At an early age, he found that he had a passion and talent for acting in the theatre, a passion that he would carry on through the very theatrical re-enactments of Bible stories that he told during his sermons. He was educated at the Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford. Because Whitefield came from a poor background, he did not have the means to pay for his tuition. He therefore entered Oxford as a servitor, the lowest rank of students at Oxford. In return for free tuition, he was assigned as a servant to a number of higher ranked students. His duties would include waking them in the morning, polishing their shoes, carrying their books and even doing their coursework (see Dallimore). He was a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles. After reading Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Man he became very religious. Following a religious conversion, he became very passionate for preaching his newfound faith. The Bishop of Gloucester ordained him before the canonical age. Whitefield preached his first sermon in the Crypt Church in his home town of Gloucester. He had earlier become the leader of the Holy Club at Oxford when the Wesley brothers departed. He was the best known and the most written about Methodist when he adopted the practice of Hywel Harris
Size: 3670px × 4587px
Photo credit: © 19th era / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -fashioned, 1800, 19th, 2d, academic, age, american, ancient, anglican, antique, antiquity, awakening, black, book, britain, british, bw, bygone, century, classical, colonies., copy, cut, cutout, drawing, duplicate, embossed, empire, engrave, engraved, engraver, engraving, etching, expression, figure, formal, front, frontispiece, george, graphic, great, hand, helped, heritage, historic, history, illustration, image, imperial, itinerant, late, lifelike, majesty, margin, master, minister, monotone, national, nineteenth, north, notable, obscure, obsolete, olden, original, paper, period, pictorial, picture, portrait, pre, press, print, printed, printing, prior, proof, publication, publicity, queen, rare, real, realism, realistic, reference, relief, replica, represent, representation, repro, reproduce, reproduction, retro, review, romantic, social, spread, standard, steel, studio, style, subject, teach, time, title, tool, topic, topical, tract, true, unusual, victoria, victorian, visual, white, whitefield, whitfield
