America's preacher and his message : Billy Graham's view of conversion and sanctification /

Pokki, Timo,

America's preacher and his message : Billy Graham's view of conversion and sanctification / [print] Timo Pokki. - Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, (c)1999. - xi, 353 pages ; 24 cm.



The Making of Graham's Message -- Graham's Youth and the Development of His Preaching Career -- Graham's Critics and Apologists -- The Tension Between Calvinism and Arminianism with Evangelicalism: a Historical Survey from the Perspective of Systematic Theology -- Graham in the Democratic American and Arminian Tradition -- Anthropology: the Prerequisites of Conversion and Sanctification in Graham's Thinking -- Graham's View of the Original State -- The Image of God in the Faculties of the Human Soul -- The Human Paradox After the Fall -- Human Sinfulness and the Depravity of Human Nature -- Free Will in Relation to God -- Conversion: The Beginning of Sanctification -- The Necessity of Conscious Conversion -- Repentance and Rejection of Sin -- Faith as an Act of the Intellect and the Will -- God's Universal Call and Offer of Salvation -- The Human Responsibility to Choose -- The New Disposition of the Will -- The New Birth as a Work of God -- The Word of God (the Bible) as the Instrument of Regeneration -- The Implantation of Divine Life Into the Human Soul -- Justification -- The Atonement -- Sanctification; The Three Stages of Holiness -- Immediate Sanctification in the New Birth -- Baptism in the Holy Spirit -- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints -- Progressive Sanctification as Gradual Growth to Spiritual Maturity -- Submission and Infilling of the Holy Spirit -- Conditions for Being Filled with the Spirit -- The Means of Sanctification -- The Will Of God Revealed by the Law -- Christ as an Example and Master.



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Graham, Billy, 1918-


Conversion--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.
Sanctification--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.

BT780 BT780.P761.A447 1999