Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987
Giving God a Hand
By Martin Gardner
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
Oral Roberts: An American Life
by David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Indiana University Press, 622 pp., $29.95
Miracles of Seed-Faith
by Oral Roberts
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, 157 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The Holy Spirit in the Now
by Oral Roberts
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, Vol. III, 72 pp., $2.50 each (paper)
He's the God of a Second Chance!
by Richard Roberts
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, 85 pp., $2.50 (paper)
Ashes to Gold
by Patti Roberts, by Sherry Andrews
Word Books, 171 pp., $3.95 (paper)
I Gotta Be Me
by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley
New Leaf Press, 138 pp., $3.50 (paper)
Run to the Roar
by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley
New Leaf Press, 139 pp., $4.95 (paper)
To Cross a River
by Jimmy Swaggart, with Robert Paul Lamb
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, 244 pp., $4.00 (paper)
The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution
by Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, $10.00 (cassette tapes)
Catholicism and Christianity
by Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, 221 pp., $10.00
Shout it From the Housetops
by Pat Robertson, with Jamie Buckingham
Bridge, 255 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Beyond Reason: How Miracles Can Change Your Life
by Pat Robertson, with William Proctor
Bantam, 149 pp., $3.50 (paper)
Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions
by Pat Robertson
Bantam, 290 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Salvation for Sale: An Insider's View of Pat Robertson's Ministry
by Gerard Thomas Straub
Prometheus Books, 323 pp., $18.95
When Mencken suggested that fundamentalism might blaze once more, who took him seriously? Clarence Darrow had made William Jennings Bryan look like the country bumpkin he was. Outside the Bible Belt, many mainline churches were promoting the 'social gospel' as they tumbled down the hill of liberal theology toward secular humanism. Remember that hullabaloo over the proposition that 'God is dead'? Then a few decades ago, to the amazement of intellectuals, hardline fundamentalism began to roar again.
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