The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and PoliticsPrinceton University Press, 26/06/2018 - 352 من الصفحات National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see their culture as secular, and the United States is viewed around the world as a secular nation. Further, intellectuals and journalists often portray born-again Christians, despite their numbers, as outsiders who endanger public life. But is American culture really so neatly split between the religious and the secular? Is America as "modern" and is born-again Christian religious belief as "pre-modern" as many think? |
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... called their pastor, bounded up on stage and announced I'd like to tell you how to get your copy of the four-volume Living Bible. He was loudly laughed off stage with great delight. That same fall, the Sixth Annual Superconference at ...
... called cultural politics. During the 1980s, Falwell delivered many politically charged sermons. He was an omnipresent spokesman and activist for the New Christian Right, and he headed the flagship conservative Christian political ...
... called on some Protestants to abolish slavery, others to preserve it. In this century, he counseled and nourished Protestants on both sides of the struggle over civil rights and racial inequality. He has very likely spoken in some ...
... small businessman. Falwell came to know Christ when he was eighteen and was shortly called by God to preach. He trained at Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, and founded Thomas Road Baptist Church 12 INTRODUCTION.
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RITES OF ORIGIN | 31 |
SITES OF REVISION | 83 |
POSTSCRIPT | 270 |
Thomas Road Baptist Church Statement of Doctrine | 277 |
Sources of Jerry Falwells Sermons | 280 |
Notes to the Chapters | 283 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Credits | 329 |
Index | 331 |