Word: schuller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fountains spurt. Birds chirp. Organ music swells. The camera pans slowly upward, revealing a white cross against an azure sky. No television director could ask for a more inspirational opening. When the blue-robed, silver-haired Rev. Robert Schuller appears, there is no doubt about it: the star has arrived. Schuller stares directly at the camera, slices the air with crisp gestures and modulates his powerful voice from a basso profundo to an ingratiating whisper. His arena, the $18 million Crystal Cathedral (two freeway exits south of Disneyland), is, with its mirrored skin and soaring see-through interior, an extension...
...Schuller, 58, a self-described retailer of religion and apostle of possibility thinking, is probably the most conspicuous and certainly one of the most con troversial religious figures in American Protestantism. His syndicated Sunday morning TV service, The Hour of Power, reaches an audience of almost 3 million, placing him among the nation's top-rated televangelists. He is the author of two recent best sellers, Tough-Minded Faith for Tender- Hearted People and Tough Times Don't Last, but Tough People Do!, as well as 19 other books. In his latest, The Power of Being Debt Free, published last...
...Religious history books will be talking about Schuller 100 years from now," contends Religious Historian Dennis Voskuil. The question, Voskuil says, is whether he will be remembered as a theologian or a showman. Like his early model, Positive Thinker Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller combines an affirmative outlook with old-fashioned piety to assure his audiences that self-esteem and success are desirable and achievable. During an hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage...
...Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!, Schuller...
NONFICTION 1. Eat to Win, Haas (1) 2. Motherhood, Bombeck (2) 3. Nothing Down, Allen (4) 4. Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!, Schuller (3) 5. Past Imperfect, Collins (5) 6. First Lady from Plains, Carter 7. Balls, Nettles and Golenbock (6) 8. More from Your Wok, Better Homes and Gardens (9) 9. Caveat, Haig 10. Putting the One Minute Manager to Work, Blanchard and Lorber...