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Billy Graham Was a Transfer Student
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By the 1950s, tensions within the world of fundamentalism led to a new effort at reform. Self-proclaimed neo-evangelical reformers hoped to strip away some of the unnecessary harshness of fundamentalist traditions while remaining truly evangelical Christians. Often these reforms were personified in the revival campaigns of evangelist Billy Graham. The network of fundamentalist schools struggled to figure out its relationship to this new divide in the fundamentalist family. Some schools embraced the reform, while others decried it. At the same time, faculty members at all the schools wrestled with strict supervision of their religious beliefs and teaching. From time to time, schools purged suspect faculty members, as in the 1953 firing of Ted Mercer at Bob Jones University.
Title: Billy Graham Was a Transfer Student
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By the 1950s, tensions within the world of fundamentalism led to a new effort at reform.
Self-proclaimed neo-evangelical reformers hoped to strip away some of the unnecessary harshness of fundamentalist traditions while remaining truly evangelical Christians.
Often these reforms were personified in the revival campaigns of evangelist Billy Graham.
The network of fundamentalist schools struggled to figure out its relationship to this new divide in the fundamentalist family.
Some schools embraced the reform, while others decried it.
At the same time, faculty members at all the schools wrestled with strict supervision of their religious beliefs and teaching.
From time to time, schools purged suspect faculty members, as in the 1953 firing of Ted Mercer at Bob Jones University.
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