
America's Evangelical Founding Father: A Conversation about George Whitefield with Historian Thomas Kidd
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
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How an Evangelical Scholar Functions as a Scholar
In the 18th century, George Whitfield was concerned about freedom for Protestantism. He wanted to make sure that French and Spanish did not get control of the new world. When you write a book on Whitfield in the U.S., within evangelical reach and range, you were entering an argument. It gets to the issue of how scholarship should be done and how an evangelical functions as a scholar.
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