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Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, by Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker (eds.)

Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, by Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker (eds.) Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker (eds.), Billy Graham: American Pilgrim (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017). 326 pp. $ 34.95 hardcover.In Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, editors Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker offer their readers yet another volume among the many on the life of a modern American religious icon. This volume, designed for post-secondary students and the general public, originated from a Lilly Endowment Inc. grant to Wheaton College for the study of Graham. The editors have chosen to arrange the essays around three sections: religion, politics, and culture, seeking not to advance a central thesis, but rather to emphasize themes of change and paradox (6).The section on religion offers four essays. Andrew Finstuen looks at Graham’s work at colleges and universities. This particular essay provides a strong summary of the content of Graham’s campus events, but the reader would often have been better served with stronger contextualization along the way. For instance, the discussion of Graham’s 1958 trip to California’s Bay Area universities would be stronger had the author briefly considered that these visits took place during a rising student movement, one which was concerned with McCarthyism and the power of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, by Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker (eds.)

Johnson, Andrea S.
Pneuma , Volume 39 (4): 3 – Jan 1, 2017
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Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker (eds.), Billy Graham: American Pilgrim (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017). 326 pp. $ 34.95 hardcover.In Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, editors Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, and Grant Wacker offer their readers yet another volume among the many on the life of a modern American religious icon. This volume, designed for post-secondary students and the general public, originated from a Lilly Endowment Inc. grant to Wheaton College for the study of Graham. The editors have chosen to arrange the essays around three sections: religion, politics, and culture, seeking not to advance a central thesis, but rather to emphasize themes of change and paradox (6).The section on religion offers four essays. Andrew Finstuen looks at Graham’s work at colleges and universities. This particular essay provides a strong summary of the content of Graham’s campus events, but the reader would often have been better served with stronger contextualization along the way. For instance, the discussion of Graham’s 1958 trip to California’s Bay Area universities would be stronger had the author briefly considered that these visits took place during a rising student movement, one which was concerned with McCarthyism and the power of the

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