George whitefield biography thomas kidd

          Thomas S. Kidd outlines the life of this influential evangelist in George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father..

          Craig Sanders asks historian Thomas S. Kidd about Whitefield's influence and Kidd's new biography, George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father.

          Thomas S. Kidd

          American historian (born 1971)

          Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971) is an American historian, currently a Distinguished Professor at Baylor University[1][2] and Distinguished professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.[3] Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the University of Notre Dame.

          He is a notable historian and author of such books as George Whitefield, a biography on the 18th-century Anglo-American preacher. Kidd credits George Whitefield as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."[4]

          Books

          • Kidd, Thomas S.

            (2009). American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism.

            In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies.

          • In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies.
          • Thomas Kidd's fascinating biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influential figure in the first generation of Anglo-American evangelical.
          • Thomas S. Kidd outlines the life of this influential evangelist in George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father.
          • Thomas Kidd of Baylor University speaks about George Whitefield, America's spiritual founding father who at one time was "the most famous man in America.".
          • In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies.
          • Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN .

          • ——— (2010). God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. New York: Basic Books. ISBN .
          • ——— (2011).

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