Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born-again Christian, I would like to express my appreciation for the wonderful May 27 article on Billy Graham; it was accurate, sincere and complete. As a crusade councilor, I wish some of the scoffers and doubters could see changed people leaving the counseling room at the Garden...
...Graham & Guilt...
...shudder to hear how Billy Graham "expounded the sinfulness of man . . . with the words, 'You are guilty ! You are guilty ! You are guilty ! . . . God looks at you . . . with his magnifying glass and sees your faults . . .' " As a psychotherapist, I spend most of my time attempting to remove from the backs of patients the great weight of guilt most of them have about expressing their genuine human nature. Men like Billy Graham degrade humanity by indicting man for simply being human, and, indirectly, help keep our mental hospitals full...
...years late, Christianity is becoming all the rage. Everybody is going to church, talking about God, and trying not to talk about Strontium 90. Kirkegaard is out in paperback, and Aristotle is out in left field. President Pusey has announced the importance of the Divinity School, while Billy Graham converts thousands in Madison Square Garden...
...less important matter to theology than how many interpretations can be put on the concept of sin. During much of their history, Americans did not give a pin for theology, preferring to view sin more in terms of hellfirers and heartwarmers in the mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism...