"SPIRITUALWARFARE AND EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY IN USA"(last part)!

Le 12 juillet 2012 par IVOIREBUSINESS - There is a historical disagreement over which faction, the fundamentalists or the liberal religious broadcasters, held more power over the airwaves during the (1930s) and (1940s).Some evangelicals have claimed that by  (1930s) and early (1940s), the liberal federal council of churches posed a tangible threat to conservative

evangelicals by virtue of the fact that the council was the sole interdenominational  liaison with the major broadcasting networks."NBC" was broadcasting three federal council programs and "ABC", when it began in the (mid-1940s), offered free public service time only to the major denominations. But in (1932), fundamentalist brodcasters accounted for 246 of the 290 weekly quater-hours of christian radio programming in "Chicago", only after congress granted the federal radio commission the role of assigning radio stations to  specific frequences in (1927) did the number of evangelical stations gradually became to decline. Still, in (1939"," Charles E. FULLER'S" old fashioned revival hour had the largest prime-time distribution of any radio program in the United states, with air time on 60 percent of all the licensed radio stations in the country, and a weekly audience estimated at 20 millions.In any event, evangelicals not affiliated with the liberal denominatioins realized that they were to play a major role inthe up-and-coming broadcast industry, they woulh have to organize.THEIR VEHICULE WAS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS(NAE),formed in (1942) to raise up a witness against the apostasy of groups claiming to represent Protestant christianity without such loyalty to the historic gospel of the Lord "Jesus-Christ". From the onset, it seemed that the primary means to fight the liberal "apostasy" was through radio.With that focus, and conscious of its need to safeguard its accesses to the airwaves, the airwaves, the (NAE) formed a separate wing in (1944), the "National Religious Broadcasters" not only from competition with the liberal denominational broadcasterss, but also from the US government which during World War 2 claimed the right to usurp air time for war-related news and propaganda.By the (1950s), the religious broadcasters ventured into the new medium of television, with sunday programs produced by "Rex Humbard", "Oral Roberts" and "Billy GRAHAM"."The lutheran Church-Missouri Synod" denomination produced a popular program called "this is the life" using a story format message of salvation through "Jesus-christ".By the (1960s,) of course, a second generation of TV ministers offered viewers a variety of preaching styles to choose from on sunday mornings-very thing from "Jimmy SWAGGART's" hell fire and brimstone to the calm and logical "positive thinking" of "ROBERT Schuller".But before turning to the details of TV ministries, it is important to underscore the fact that the media ministries though now highly politicized began as a component of missionary work.Obedient to the new testament mandate to "go into all the world ad make disciples", US missionaries recognized that their efforts could be magnified many times over the power of the airwaves!(Yves T Bouazo)("Sources":"Spiritual warfare-the politics of christian right from the book of "Sara Diamond")