A Prophet with Honor, William C. Martin
A Prophet with Honor, William C. Martin
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A Prophet with Honor
The Billy Graham Story (Updated Edition)

Author: William C. Martin

Narrator: Maurice England

Unabridged: 36 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 02/27/2018


Synopsis

A Prophet with Honor is the biography Billy Graham himself invited and appreciated for its sympathetic but frank approach. Carefully documented, eminently fair, and gracefully written, it raises and answers key questions about Graham's character, contributions, and influence on the world religious scene. In this engaging and comprehensive book, William Martin gives readers a better understanding of the most successful evangelist in modern history, and the movement he led for over fifty years. A Prophet with Honor makes a vital contribution to the Billy Graham legacy and allows us to understand why his words, actions, and personality endeared him to popes and preachers, kings and presidents, and millions of Christians in virtually every nation and culture around the world. Martin draws onextensive conversations with Graham himselfnearly two hundred interviewspreviously untouched resources, including documents from six presidential libraries and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association archivespersonal observation of Graham's crusades and conferences in the United States and Europedecades of research on evangelical Christianity Martin pays particular attention to Graham's controversial relationships with Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He also describes how Graham's lifelong determination "to do something great for God" led him to organize international conferences that spearheaded the worldwide spread of the liberating message of Jesus, and prompted him to help strengthen religious freedom in the Soviet bloc and China. Tracing Graham's life and ministry from his rural and religious roots in North Carolina to his place as the elder statesman of American evangelicalism, examining both his triumphs and his tribulations, Martin shows the multidimensional character of the man who has become one of the most admired persons in the world.

About William C. Martin

William Martin (BD, PhD, Harvard) is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chavanne Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has appeared on many national radio and television programs, including 60 Minutes, Nightline, 20/20, Today, Frontline, and All Things Considered. He has been published in numerous national and regional periodicals including The Atlantic, Harper’s Esquire, and Texas Monthly. While researching this book, he was given exclusive access to the Billy Graham archives.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on April 03, 2018

I started this book less than a week after Billy’s death, mostly just to get to know the man. Like anyone born in the last 50 years, I’ve always known about Billy Graham and heard about the wonder of his crusades, but I never really knew his story. Two things that really stand out to me about Billy:......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 26, 2019

Summary: An in-depth biography of the life of Billy Graham, chronicling his evangelistic crusades, shaping influence on evangelicalism, his pivotal role in organizing consultations and training to mobilize world evangelism, and his relationships with presidents and international leaders, as well as......more

Goodreads review by Hank on March 24, 2018

This is probably the best biography of Billy Graham. (Grant Wacker's America's Pastor is also very good but more of an interpretive analysis of the BG phenomenon than just a biography.) Besides the basic facts of Graham's life that are familiar to many of us there are dozens of interesting ancedotes......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 22, 2021

Excellent biography of a true giant of Christianity and humanity. It chronicles the high point of the various crusades with special emphasis on some of the more significant ones including the 1949 Los Angeles (the Canvas Cathedral), 1954 London (Harringay), 1957 Madison Square Garden, 1973 South Kor......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on April 12, 2021

Clear-eyed and even-handed, the author delivers a comprehensive biography of the inspired Billy Graham, possibly the most gifted Evangelist of the 20th century ... from his roots in North Carolina to the far-flung corners of the globe, Graham has preached a message of salvation to the masses ... wel......more