Dennis James Kennedy, Ph.D., (born November 3, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is the pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and founder of Coral Ridge Ministries, a US$37-million-a-year non-profit corporation with an audience of 3 million which he founded in 1974. His weekly television program, The Coral Ridge Hour, is carried on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and INSP Network, and syndicated on numerous other stations. His daily radio program, Truths That Transform, is heard across radio stations in the United States and is available as podcast on the program's website. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Nickname: The Garden City (of the South), Masters City Augusta National Golf Club Motto: We feel Good Location of the consolidated areas of Augusta and Richmond County in the state of Georgia. ... A pastor is a minister or priest of a Christian church. ... Nickname: Venice of America Coordinates: Country United States State Florida County Broward Established 27 March 1911 Government  - Type Commission-Manager  - Mayor Jim Naugle Area  - City  36. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... The Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, is the largest Christian (and largest religious) television network in the world. ...

Biography

Kennedy is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, having transferred his membership there in the late 1970s from the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He is considered a conservative evangelical minister who is often involved in political activities within the Christian right and has been identified as a leader of the Dominionism movement.^[1][2][3][4] He has written and coauthored several political works such as What if America Were a Christian Nation Again? and The Rewriting of America's History, arguing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Critics contend that he is excessively conservative on certain politically charged topics such as abortion and homosexuality. Kennedy runs The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship, an evangelical ministry on Capitol Hill. The Center awards a "Distinguished Christian Statesman Award" annually to high profile Christian political leaders. Past recipients include Tom DeLay, Sam Brownback and John Ashcroft. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a Protestant denomination, the second largest Presbyterian church body in the United States after the Presbyterian Church (USA). ... The Presbyterian Church in the United States was the Southern branch of Presbyterianism in America. ... The word evangelicalism usually refers to a broad collection of religious beliefs, practices, and traditions which are found among conservative Protestant Christians. ... The term Christian Right is used by scholars and journalists, to refer to a spectrum of right-wing Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of conservative social and political values. ... Dominionism is a trend in Protestant Christian evangelicalism and fundamentalism, primarily, though not exclusively, in the United States, that seeks to establish specific political policies based on religious beliefs. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas. ... Samuel Dale Sam Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. ... John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. ...

According to his official biography he earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tampa, a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology from Chicago Graduate School of Theology (an unaccredited institution^[5]), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from New York University.^[6] Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... The University of Tampa, or UT, is a private, co-educational university in downtown Tampa, Florida. ... Master of Divinity is a common degree among theological seminaries and is considered the minimum academic requirement for ordination into pastoral ministry. ... Columbia Theological Seminary is one of the ten official Presbyterian Church (USA) seminaries. ... A Masters degree which is typically earned after one has already completed a Master of Divinity or a Master of Theological Studies. ... Accreditation is a process by which a facilitys services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...

His theological works include Why I Believe, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born, Skeptics Answered, and Truths That Transform. He also developed the Evangelism Explosion (EE) method of evangelism and holds to a traditional Calvinist theology. He has also worked with other Christian ministers such as R.C. Sproul, a faculty member at the Knox Theological Seminary which Kennedy founded. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Calvinism is a theological system and an approach to the Christian life that emphasizes Gods sovereignty in all things. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... R.C. Sproul Dr. Robert Charles Sproul (born 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American, Calvinist theologian, and pastor. ... Knox Theological Seminary is an advanced Seminary teaching program founded by Dr. D. James Kennedy. ...

Kennedy is also involved in Christian apologetics and is critical of groups such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Freemasons, working with such people as Sproul and John F. MacArthur, Jr. against Catholicism and Ron Carlson against Freemasonry.^{[citation needed]} Christian apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of Christianity. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... The Masonic Square and Compasses. ... This article is about American evangelical writer and minister John F. MacArthur. ...

Kennedy was a co-signer of the "Land Letter" sent to President Bush in October 2002 which outlined a "just war" rationale for the military invasion of Iraq.^[7] The Land Letter was a letter sent to President George W. Bush by evangelical Christian leaders on October 3, 2002 which outlined their theological support for a just war pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. ... Just war is a specific concept of how warfare might be justified, typically in accordance with a particular situation, or scenario, and expanded or supported by reference to doctrine, tradition, or historical commentary. ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ...

Health Problems

Kennedy suffered a cardiac arrest at his Fort Lauderdale home on Thursday evening, December 28, 2006.^[8] He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, and remains hospitalized as of April 2007. The diagnosis was heart arrythmia as a cause of the cardiac arrest, and Kennedy was given a pacemaker in his heart.^[9] He has since been taken out of intensive care and has been receiving physical therapy.^[10] December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Nickname: Venice of America Coordinates: Country United States State Florida County Broward Established 27 March 1911 Government  - Type Commission-Manager  - Mayor Jim Naugle Area  - City  36. ... // April 2007 is a common month and is the fourth month of that year. ... Cardiac arrhythmia is a group of conditions in which the muscle contraction of the heart is irregular or is faster or slower than normal. ... The term pacemaker has multiple meanings: In sports, a pacemaker or pacer is a competitor who enters an athletics race with little or no intention of winning, but purely to set a fast pace for other competitors to follow. ...

Notable issues and views

• Same-sex marriage: Kennedy is strongly opposed to same-sex marriage and calls for a constitutional "Firewall" to protect the nation from "counterfeit marriage."^[11]
• Apologetics: Kennedy has frequently claimed that if Christianity is not true then it is a massive fraud and hoax perpetrated by evil men bent on making the world a place where Christ's commandment to 'Love thy neighbor' reigns supreme, which is the antithesis of the criminal mind, and hence the theory that Christianity is a fraud is entirely incompatible with logic and human nature.
• Constitution Restoration Act: a bill promoted during the 2005 Confronting the Judicial War on Faith conference that sought to authorize Congress to impeach judges who fail to acknowledge "God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government" and to limit the power of the federal judiciary to rule in religious liberty cases.
• Creation-evolution controversy: Kennedy is a Young Earth Creationist who rejects the theory of evolution and believes that it "led to the death of nine million people in Nazi Germany.... The greatest mass murderers of all time [are] all compliments of evolution."^[12] , an idea reflected in Coral Ridge's controversial documentary Darwin's Deadly Legacy in 2006.
• Kennedy seeks to "reclaim America for Christ" in which government policies and laws would be consistent with evangelical Christianity. Many of his public messages on this topic focus on claims that the Founding Fathers of America were Christian and had intended to establish a Christian constitution.
• Kennedy was a notable member of the Moral Majority polical movement in the 1970s and '80s.

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Criticism and controversy

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AUSCS), a religious freedom advocacy group, has criticized Kennedy's founding of Center for Reclaiming America for being "just another Religious Right outfit obsessed with opposing legal abortion and gay rights and bashing public education."^[13] AUSCS also says that "Kennedy's ministry has always promoted right-wing politics," and "it isn't uncommon to tune in to "The Coral Ridge Hour" and hear him preach against legal abortion, anti-discrimination protections for gays or the teaching of evolution in public schools." AUSCS also criticized Kennedy and his ministry for "frequently sends out fund-raising appeals." such as, "One recent letter asked for funds to stop PBS stations from airing a 'homosexual-propaganda program' called It's Elementary." Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United or AU for short) is an advocacy group in the United States which promotes the separation of church and state, a legal doctrine derived from the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. ... This article is about discrimination in the social science sense. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has severely criticized^[14] the neo-creationist documentary produced by the Coral Ridge Ministries "Darwin's Deadly Legacy,"^[15] which attempts to link the evolution to Hitler: "This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis." The ADL further denounced Kennedy as "a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to 'reclaim America for Christ' and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law." Coral Ridge Ministries described the ADL's criticisms in a press release^[16] as "harsh" and "unfounded" while reiterating points made in the documentary, along with citing Scottish anatomist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith who the center cites as saying in the 1940's, "The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist. He has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution". Furthermore, Daniel Lapin, a Jewish Orthodox rabbi, issued a statement^[17] criticizing the ADL for what he claims was a miscategorization of Jewish opinion, and said "...the ADL, though filled with good intent, is utterly, completely clueless." Also, the center released a statement^[18] concerning the ADL statement's accusations that Dr. Francis Collins was misled in the documentary, saying that he signed a "Talent release," giving the center rights to use his statements, and denying that Collins had "NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler" as the ADL put it. The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an advocacy group founded by Bnai Brith in the United States whose stated aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ... Neo-creationism is a movement whose goal is to restate creationism in terms more likely to be well received by the public, policy makers, educators, and the scientific community. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ... Hitler redirects here. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ... Anthropology is the study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... Sir Arthur Keith (February 5, 1866—January 7, 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and was a leading figure in the study of Human fossils. ... Daniel Lapin (born 1950?) is an American Orthodox rabbi living in Mercer Island, Washington, and the founder of Toward Tradition (a conservative Jewish-Christian organization). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

Kennedy has also hosted Christian Reconstructionists Rousas John Rushdoony and Gary North on his program. However, he denounced any attempts to link him to Reconstructionist movement as a McCarthyist technique of guilt by association, and that he does not approve of their theology.^[19][20] Dominionism represents the political theory which springs from Christian Reconstructionism.^[21] Frederick Clarkson argues that despite his denial, Kennedy meets the criteria for being a dominionist.^[22] Christian Reconstructionism is a religious and political movement within Protestant Christianity. ... Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) was the seminal leader of the Christian Reconstructionist theology in the United States. ... Gary North For the bisexual rights activist, see Gary North (journalist) Gary North is a writer and publisher from the Christian Reconstruction movement. ... Guilt by association, also known as the bad company fallacy or the company that you keep fallacy, is the logical fallacy of claiming that something must be false because of the people or organisations who support it. ... Dominionism is a trend in Protestant Christian evangelicalism and fundamentalism, primarily, though not exclusively, in the United States, that seeks to establish specific political policies based on religious beliefs. ... Frederick Clarkson is an American journalist and public speaker in the fields of politics and religion. ...

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Official

• Bio of Kennedy From the Coral Ridge Website
• The Coral Ridge Hour at the Trinity Broadcasting Network
• James Kennedy's ProCon.org Biography
• Center for Reclaiming America for Christ Kennedy's Political Action Center
• Truths That Transform daily radio broadcast on OnePlace.com
• D. James Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database

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Critical

• D. James Kennedy: General Teachings/Activities from Biblical Discernment Ministries
• D. James Kennedy: Who is He? From the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
• Theocracy Watch