The Legacy of Billy Graham
Subtitle: Critical Reflections on America's Greatest Evangelist
Publisher: Westminster; Westminster John Knox Press
Published: January 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780664231385
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian mission & evangelism; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - Pentecostal & Charismatic; Religion, Politics & State; Religion & Spirituality / General; Christianity - General; 1918-; Biography; Church history; Evangelists; Graham, Billy,; Influence; United States
Description: "Perhaps no individual person has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham. And 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 American civil religion. With contributors both noted and revered, this critical but appreciative volume poignantly assesses Graham's career. With fairness and clarity, these prominent mainline to progressive scholars shed valuable light on the evangelist's theology and preaching; his influential perspectives on politics and economics, feminism and sex, war and peace, and race and power; as well as his engagement with powerful contemporaries, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reinhold Niebuhr, before concluding with two insightful retrospectives on his legacy." -- Back cover of book.