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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> ''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 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> | ||
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Revision as of 19:01, December 10, 2008
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."[1]
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. [2]