Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George by Jerome Dean Mahaffey

By Jerome Dean Mahaffey

The 3rd quantity within the stories in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the spectacular and lasting impact of 1 of yank history's such a lot attention-grabbing and enigmatic figures—George Whitefield. Jerome Mahaffey explores George Whitefield's position in making a "rhetoric of neighborhood" that effectively verified a standard worldview one of several colonial cultures. utilizing a rigorous approach to rhetorical research, Mahaffey cogently argues that George Whitefield directed the evolution of an American collective spiritual identification that lay beneath the rising political ideology that fueled the yank Revolution.

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