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Falwell: An Autobiography
Jerry Falwell has to be the most controversial and interesting personality in American religion today. His colorful dramatic and adventurous life, as intriguing as good fiction, could quickly attract 100,000 buyers, friends and foes
Hardcover
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486 pages
Published
January 1st 1996
by Liberty House Publishers
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After reading about Jerry in his own words, I find him likable and funny and not at all stuffy. His Christianity is heartfelt and real, and he lives it out without fear or hypocrisy.
As a Christian who agrees with Falwell theologically, I always kind of steered away from him, his church, and his college because of the media response toward him, his theology, and his Moral Majority foray in the 1980s, under the theory that smoke followed fire and Falwell might be the self-righteous ogre he was por ...more
As a Christian who agrees with Falwell theologically, I always kind of steered away from him, his church, and his college because of the media response toward him, his theology, and his Moral Majority foray in the 1980s, under the theory that smoke followed fire and Falwell might be the self-righteous ogre he was por ...more
Why am I reading this? Since I live in the shadow of Liberty University, I thought it would be good to know about the man who started it.
Oct 02, 2012
Charlotte
marked it as if-you-recommend-this-i-ll-bite-you
Controversial? Yes.
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Jerry Falwell, Sr. was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. He co-founded Liberty University with Dr.
Elmer L. Towns
in 1971. He was also a founding member of the Moral Majority.
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