The Legacy Of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections On America's Greatest Evangelist

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Perhaps no individual person had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although Graham s influence on evangelicalism has long been recognized, Michael G. Long s The Legacy of Billy Graham is the first book to examine his impact on mainline Christianity and on American civil religion. With noted contributors including John Cobb, Harvey Cox, Gary Dorrien, Karen Lebacqz, Thomas Long, Mark Lewis Taylor, and Philip Wogaman, this critical but generally appreciative volume assesses Graham s career from the perspectives of preaching and theology, social issues, and his engagement with his contemporaries and then concludes with two retrospectives on his legacy. Contents Introduction: Taking Billy Graham Seriously by Michael G. Long Preaching and Theology 1. Preaching the Good News, by Thomas G. Long 2. The Tangible Evangelism of Billy Graham, by Heather Murray Elkins 3. Law and Faith, by John B. Cobb Jr. Social Issues 4. Keep Yourself Pure : Social Justice and Sexual Ethics, by Karen Lebacqz 5. You Shall Have No Poor Among You, by Douglas Sturm 6. A Matter of Pride: A Feminist Response, by Ellen Ott Marshall 7. Truth and Power: Reflections on the Graham Enigma, by J. Philip Wogaman 8. Religious Sanctity and Political Power, by Leslie C. Griffin Contemporaries in Conflict? 9. Billy Graham in a Secular Society: The Greater London Crusade of 1954, by Mark D. Chapman 10. Niebuhr and Graham: Modernity, Complexity, White Supremacism, Justice, Ambiguity, by Gary Dorrien 11. Graham, King, and the Beloved Community, by Rufus Burrow Jr. 12. Above Politics? Graham after Watergate, by Steven P. Miller A Question of Legacy 13. U.S. Evangelicals: Recovering a Post-9/11 Prophetic Spirit, by Mark Lewis Taylor 14. The Lasting Imprint of Billy Graham: Recollections and Prognostications, by Harvey Cox

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