A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
1949. Since then, he has conducted numerous evangelistic
crusades around the world, and they have resulted in
more than two million decisions for Christ. In the early
1970s, one million people attended a Sunday crusade service
in Seoul, Korea. Graham has been a friend of a number
of U.S. presidents.
In 1956, Graham founded Christianity Today magazine.
Now independent of him, it has become the leading
Evangelical periodical. Graham was also instrumental in
calling the World Congress on Evangelism (Berlin, 1966),
the International Congress on World Evangelization
(Lausanne, 1974), and two International Conferences of
Itinerant Evangelists (1983 and 1986).
Graham epitomized the new Evangelicalism in contrast
to the old Fundamentalism. He was one of the first
speakers to insist on racial integration of his crusades.
Moreover, in planning a crusade in a city, he enlisted help
from people of all denominations in the area, including
Roman Catholics. As a result, he came under fire from
Fundamentalists for compromise.
Well-known Evangelical educational institutions
include Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary,
and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Evangelical
institutions in the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition are
Evangel University (Assemblies of God), Lee University
(Church of God), Regent University, and Oral Roberts
University.
There are many other Evangelical institutions and
parachurch organizations. One of those at the cutting
edge of evangelizing unreached peoples is Wycliffe Bible
Translators (1934).
Well-known scholars and authors of the Evangelical
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