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Avarice, arrogance, sleaze, fraud, carnal sin. Various American televangelists have already been accused of almost every imaginable transgression. What more could media-star ministers possibly be charged with? Answer: sloppy theology. That is precisely the theme of a new anthology, The Agony of Deceit, published by Chicago's fundamentalistic Moody...
Especially ironic is the book's indictment of another celebrity, Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana preacher who has specialized in charging rival preachers with heresy. The book faults Swaggart -- who continues to broadcast despite his public disgrace after frequenting a New Orleans prostitute -- for confusing Christianity's classical definition of the...
Replying to those criticisms, Swaggart says that when God made man "in our image," he was referring to body as well as spirit. However, he explains, God's body is "immaterial." As for the Trinity, he insists that his thinking is "identical with the church fathers'," but adds with a...
Except for the disputed dating, Kenyon's discoveries at Jericho were largely consistent with the Bible story. For one thing, she found that the city's walls had fallen in a way suggestive of sudden collapse. Many scholars think the destruction was caused by an earthquake, which could also account...
As if arrogance, avarice, sleaze, fraud and carnal sin were not enough for the industry, various televangelists are being charged with sloppy doctrine by fellow Bible Belters.