The rhetorical leadership of Fulton J. Sheen, Norman Vincent Peale, and Billy Graham in the age of extremes / Timothy H. Sherwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherwood, Timothy H., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian leadership.

United States--Church history--20th century.

United States.

Church history.

Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John), 1895-1979.

Sheen, Fulton J.

Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993.

Peale, Norman Vincent.

Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.

Graham, Billy.

Christian leadership--United States.

Physical Description:

v, 159 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Summary:

Fulton J. Sheen, Norman Vincent Peale, and Billy Graham were America's most popular religious leaders during the mid-twentieth-century period known as the golden years of the Age of Extremes. It was an era that encompassed polemic contrasts of good and evil on the world stage in political philosophies and international relations. Sheen was-the voice of reason who spoke against those conflicting-ideologies which were hostile to religious faith and democracy; Peale preached the gospel of reassurance, self-assurance, and success despite ominous global threats; and Graham was the heroic model of faith whose message of conversion provided Americans an identity and direction opposite to atheistic communism. This, study looks at how and why their rhetorical leadership, both separately and together, contributed to the climate of an extreme era and influenced a national religious revival. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rhetorical situation in the age of extremes: an introduction

Sheen in an age of ideologies

Peale in an age of anxiety

Graham in an age of heroes

Rhetorical leadership in a golden age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739174302

0739174304

OCLC:

842876988