Religion: Billy & the Theologians

Is ubiquitous Billy Graham good for Christianity? Though many will fail to understand how anyone who preaches the Bible could be bad for it, there are those who feel that where the gospel is concerned, half a loaf can be worse than no bread. The Billy Graham debate is waxing hot in the pages of the Protestant weekly Christian Century.

For the Negative. An articulate anti-Grahamite is Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, who has done more than any man in the U.S. to hose away the froth of religious liberalism with the cold high-pressure...

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