Vanguard of the Religious Right: U.S. Evangelicals in Israeli-Controlled South Lebanon
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/dh/dhac011
ISSN1467-7709
Autores Tópico(s)Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
ResumoIn a 1997 retrospective reviewing the legacy of local Christian radio pioneer George Otis, the Los Angeles Times described him as “a bit like Indiana Jones, but instead of a bullwhip, [he] carries a Bible.”1 Otis, who had built a globe-circling shortwave radio organization, High Adventure Ministries, was likely delighted by the description.2 In the wake of the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, Otis joined a movement of Christian Zionist evangelicals who believed that these conflicts foretold the coming of the Apocalypse and Christ’s return to earth. Especially after the Israeli victory in the 1967 Six-Day war, many evangelicals felt certain that the realization of Biblical prophecy was underway. Otis, an aviation executive, had been devoted to lay ministry since his conversion to born-again Christianity in the early 1960s. In the following decades he applied his entrepreneurial gusto to spreading the gospel, especially in the Middle East. After...
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