America's Evangelical Founding Father: A Conversation about George Whitefield with Historian Thomas Kidd

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🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0	This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about
0:08.4	frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping
0:11.8	them. I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,
0:17.0	Kentucky.
0:18.0	Thomas Kidd is professor of history at Baylor University and is associate director of Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion.
0:24.3	Dr. Kidd has authored many books including God of Liberty, a Religious History of the
0:28.6	American Revolution, The Great Awakening, the Roots of Evangelical
0:31.8	Christianity in Colonial America, and he most recently Awakening, One of his most recent publications, George Whitfield, America's Spiritual Founding Father.
0:45.4	Professor Kidd, welcome to Thinking in Public.
0:48.3	I'll say right up front, I think it's the best book yet written on George Whitfield,
0:52.4	and it's a book that's been sorely needed for
0:53.8	some time. Professor Thomas Kidd when did you decide to write this book and
0:57.5	and exactly why? I had been thinking about doing a George Whitfield biography for some time because I did a book in 2007 on The Great Awakening in general and so my people asked me when did you start researching the Whitfield biography. Well it was it was back then because
1:17.8	Whitfield is the key figure in the great awakening in both Britain and America and so a lot of the content of that
1:24.9	book was giving the context of Whitfield's work. But I also knew that his
1:31.8	300th birthday was coming in 2014 and I was mindful that there was an opening for a new biography of Whitfield.
1:41.5	There have of course been a number of earlier biographies of him but I felt like there was
1:48.0	really not a biography of Whitfield as an evangelical leader from an academic perspective and of course as
1:56.7	you know I wear a couple of hats in this arena one is that I'm an evangelical believer and another is I'm a university
2:07.2	trained PhD historian and so I felt like I would have something to contribute on this and especially in light of the
2:15.2	300th birthday I thought it was an opportunity for me to reintroduce him to hopefully many
2:20.7	interested readers.
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