When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word

by Peter Charles Hoffer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421403129
• ISBN13: 9781421403120
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary