Word: orally
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Along with Los Angeles-based Correspondents Michael Riley and Jon D. Hull, Dolan spent the past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
...Roberts was indicating, Jesus replied that he had healed the sick and raised the dead. Roberts also said that in the "world to come," he expected to return to Tulsa. He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if God did not bring me back to these 400 acres of Oral Roberts University he has built and would let me reign over these 400 acres...
...three raisings by Jesus and one each by Peter and Paul. (The "resurrection" of Jesus is distinguished from the "raising" of persons who eventually died again.) Nonetheless, Pentecostal Scholar Russell Spittler of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., protests that "miracles are better left to speak for themselves -- Oral is the last person who should mention...
Roberts, says Harrell, had a "flirtation with respectability in the 1960s and 1970s," when he left the faith-healing circuit to build Oral Roberts University, of which he is president. The 4,650-student campus includes an 11,500-seat arena and schools of medicine, theology, business, education and nursing. The overall complex, with its 60-story clinic and other medical buildings, retirement apartments and two visitors' centers, is valued at $500 million...
...Oral Roberts, fresh from a run of other controversies, claims to have raised the dead. -- The Pope and Billy Graham agree to meet...