George Whitefield on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
Christ was not only God, but he was God and man in one person.
THE POSITION
One person, truly God and truly man, and he treats the deity as the thing the gospel stands on: "If Jesus Christ be not very God of very God, I would never preach the gospel of Christ again." The two natures each do work in redemption — as God he satisfies, as man he obeys and suffers — and he thinks it "no breach of charity to affirm that an Arian or Socinian cannot be a Christian," the one making Christ a created God and the other only a good man.
42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” “David’s,” they answered.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Anglican priest and field preacher of the Evangelical Revival and the First Great Awakening, who crossed the Atlantic seven times and died on his last American tour. Wesley's Oxford companion and, from his 1740 letter answering Free Grace, his public opponent on election — the Calvinist half of the Methodist split, set here beside Wesley and Edwards. This entry rests on that letter and eleven of the sermons printed in the standard selected editions.
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"George Whitefield on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/whitefield/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/whitefield/christology).