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| − | '''Hal Lindsey''' (b. 1930 Houston, Texas) started his career as a tugboat captain. He then became an evangelical and a best-selling author. His first book ''The Late Great Planet Earth'' (1970), according to the ''[[New York Times]]'', was "the number one best-selling book of the 1970's."<ref>quote taken from ''Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion'', Charles H. Lippy (Ed.), Greenwood Press, 1989, ISBN 0-313-25356-0, pp.247-255</ref> | + | '''Hal Lindsey''' (b. 1930 Houston, Texas) started his career as a tugboat captain. He then became an evangelical Christian and a best-selling author. His first book ''The Late Great Planet Earth'' (1970), according to the ''[[New York Times]]'', was "the number one best-selling book of the 1970's."<ref>quote taken from ''Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion'', Charles H. Lippy (Ed.), Greenwood Press, 1989, ISBN 0-313-25356-0, pp.247-255</ref> |
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| | He is famed and sought-after for his Chritian scripture-based [[prophecy]]. In his 1983 book ''The Rapture'' he recounts that in 1956 during a period of religious doubt he participated in a meeting with Jack Blackwell, then a young minster, who discussed biblical [[prophecy]]. He soon became convinced that current events are governed by the will of [[God]] in ways that interlock with biblical scriptue.<ref>''Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion'', Charles H. Lippy (Ed.), Greenwood Press, 1989, ISBN 0-313-25356-0, pp.247-255</ref> | | He is famed and sought-after for his Chritian scripture-based [[prophecy]]. In his 1983 book ''The Rapture'' he recounts that in 1956 during a period of religious doubt he participated in a meeting with Jack Blackwell, then a young minster, who discussed biblical [[prophecy]]. He soon became convinced that current events are governed by the will of [[God]] in ways that interlock with biblical scriptue.<ref>''Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion'', Charles H. Lippy (Ed.), Greenwood Press, 1989, ISBN 0-313-25356-0, pp.247-255</ref> |
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| | * ''Hal Lindsey and Biblical Prophecy'', Cornelis Vanderwaal (C van der Waal) [1919-1980], Paideia Press, 1978, ISBN 0888150180, 139 pages (Book is ''favorable'' towards Lindsey's Christian Evangelism, ''unfavorable'' towards his dispensationalism) | | * ''Hal Lindsey and Biblical Prophecy'', Cornelis Vanderwaal (C van der Waal) [1919-1980], Paideia Press, 1978, ISBN 0888150180, 139 pages (Book is ''favorable'' towards Lindsey's Christian Evangelism, ''unfavorable'' towards his dispensationalism) |
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