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===Oral Roberts===
 
===Oral Roberts===
 
[[Image:OralRoberts.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Oral Roberts]] week-long revival in Los Angeles, 1957]]
 
[[Image:OralRoberts.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Oral Roberts]] week-long revival in Los Angeles, 1957]]
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After World War II a pan-Pentecostal revival in the U.S. was highly successful. A new generation of independent leaders  emerged, including [[Oral Roberts]] (1918 – ) and Jimmy Swaggart (1935 – ). These preachers, along with ecumenically minded Pentecostal leaders such as David Du Plessis (1905–1987), encouraged the spread of the charismatic movement to mainstream Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church.   
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After World War II a pan-Pentecostal revival in the U.S. was highly successful. A new generation of independent leaders  emerged, including [[Oral Roberts]] (1918 – 2009) and Jimmy Swaggart (1935 – ). These preachers, along with ecumenically-minded Pentecostal leaders such as David Du Plessis (1905–1987), encouraged the spread of the charismatic movement to mainstream Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church.   
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Oral Roberts became a pioneer in the use of radio and television. In the 1960s and 1970s, he left the faith-healing circuit to build Oral Roberts University, founded in 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He claims to have raised over a billion dollars.<ref> Richard N. Ostling, Barbara Dolan and Michael P. Harris. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964970,00.html "Raising Eyebrows And The Dead," ''Time'' Jul. 13, 1987]</ref>
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Oral Roberts became a pioneer in the use of radio and television. In the 1960s and 1970s, he left the faith-healing circuit to build Oral Roberts University, founded in 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He claimed to have raised over a billion dollars.<ref> Richard N. Ostling, Barbara Dolan and Michael P. Harris. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964970,00.html "Raising Eyebrows And The Dead," ''Time'' Jul. 13, 1987]</ref>
    
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