Americas Pastor - Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation

Informationen zum Autor Grant Wacker is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Christian History at Duke University Divinity School. Klappentext More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker¿s interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many, and how his uncanny ability to appropriate trends in the wider culture allowed him to transform his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary capturing the aspirations and fears of average Americans. Zusammenfassung More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker’s interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many, and how his uncanny ability to appropriate trends in the wider culture allowed him to transform his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary capturing the aspirations and fears of average Americans.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Wacker
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9780674052185
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05218-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Christianity, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, Biography: religious & spiritual, Church history, History of the Americas, Biography: religious and spiritual, Religious institutions and organizations, Christian Church