Abstract
Billy Graham was a world-famous Christian evangelist in the twentieth century. He visited Scotland in 1955 and led a six-week campaign that included a series of events held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. Hundreds of thousands of people attended these rallies and many were converted. This paper will discuss how Billy Graham employed the danger of nuclear war during these meetings in his Gospel appeals. It will examine critically the sermons he preached in order to determine how he used this threat of crisis in order to generate spiritual anxiety and encourage people to be ‘born again’ during the All Scotland Crusade.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 53-69 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Scottish Church History |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 1 Apr 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Apr 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Permission was granted to use quotations from Billy Graham’s All Scotland Crusade sermons by the Billy Graham Literary Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Keywords
- Communism
- threat
- crisis
- conversion
- hydrogen bombs
- nuclear warfare
- world troubles