biography
pronunciation:
[fawlwel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Protestant evangelist, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. He studied engineering, then turned to religious studies after a conversion. In 1956 he founded a Baptist church in Lynchburg and later launched an extremely popular television programme, ‘The Old-Time Gospel Hour’, and established Liberty Baptist College. From 1979 his Moral Majority became a political force for advancing the social agenda of the religious right, though after 1990 he withdrew from the more public and political sphere to concentrate on his preaching. His writings include Listen, America! (1980) and Wisdom for Living (1984). |
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