Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation.(Book review) Journal of Church and State | March 22, 2008| | COPYRIGHT 2008 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation. By Jerome Dean Mahaffey. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2007. xiii + 295 pp. $39.95.

Rhetoric scholar Jerome Dean Mahaffey's new book, Preaching Politics, takes on the problem of the relationship between the North American revivals in the mid-eighteenth century and the coming of the Revolutionary War a generation later. He places the Anglican "Grand Itinerant," George Whitefield, at the center of his narrative and uses a close analysis of Whitefield's sermons and ...

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