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Encyclopedia > Oral Roberts
This article is about Oral Roberts, the Christian televangelist. For the university bearing his name, see Oral Roberts University.
Oral Roberts
Born January 24, 1918 (1918-01-24) (age 90)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Residence Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Occupation Televangelist
Spouse(s) Evelyn Roberts (Lutman) (April 22, 1917 - May 4, 2005) (widowed) (December 25, 1938), Stilwell, Oklahoma
Children Richard Roberts, Rebecca Nash (deceased), Ronald Roberts (deceased), and Roberta Potts

Granville Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918, in Tulsa, OK) is an American neo-Pentecostal televangelist. He is also a leader in the charismatic movement and a powerful orator. Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a charismatic Christian university with an enrollment of about 5,300 students from most US states along with a number of international students. ... is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Downtown Tulsa Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. ... For other uses, see Oklahoma (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... Broken Arrow is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County with an extension into western Wagoner County. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about Oral Roberts, the Christian televangelist. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stilwell is a craphole city in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States full of ignorant depraved Cherokees. ... For other uses, see Oklahoma (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Downtown Tulsa Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... In the USA, a televangelist (television evangelist) is a religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his (or her) ministry to TV broadcasts to a regular viewing and listening audience. ... The charismatic movement begins with the adoption of certain beliefs typical of those held by Pentecostal Christians — specifically what are known as the biblical charisms or spiritual gifts: glossolalia (speaking in tongues), prophesying, supernatural healing — by those within mainstream Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. ...

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Early life

Roberts was born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, as Granville Oral Roberts, the fifth and youngest child of the Rev. Ellis Melvin Roberts and Claudia Priscilla Irwin.[1] Pontotoc County is a county located in the state of Oklahoma. ... For other uses, see Oklahoma (disambiguation). ...


After leaving high school, Roberts furthered his education, and studied for two years at both Oklahoma Baptist University, and Phillips University. In 1938, he married a preacher's daughter, Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock.[2] Their marriage lasted 66 years until her death on May 4, 2005. During their life together, they expanded his ministry from preaching in tents to preaching on the radio. Roberts became one of the forerunners on television and attracted a vast viewership. Furthermore, he has written several books, such as Miracle of Seed-Faith and three autobiographies:, Expect a Miracle, Oral Roberts: Life Story, and The Call. Oklahoma Baptist University is a Christian liberal arts university located in Shawnee, Oklahoma and owned by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. ... Phillips University was an institution of higher education located in Enid, Oklahoma from 1906 to 1998. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...


Roberts originally made a name for himself with a mobile big tent "that sat 3,000 on metal folding chairs" where "he shouted at petitioners who did not respond to his healing."[3] Roberts became a traveling faith healer after dropping out of college.[3]


Ministry and university

In 1947, Roberts resigned his pastoral ministry with the Pentecostal Holiness Church to found Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association. He began conducting evangelistic and faith healing crusades, mainly in the U.S. and appeared as a guest speaker for hundreds of national and international meetings and conventions. In the healing line, thousands of sick people would wait to stand before Oral Roberts so he could pray for them and lay his right hand on their afflicted body. According to his autobiography, there were many people healed in this manner.[page # needed] Faith healing is the use of supernatural or spiritual intervention to cure disease. ...

The Praying Hands, on the ORU campus in Tulsa, OK.

He founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963, stating he was obeying a command from God. The university was chartered in 1963 and received its first students in 1965. Students were required to sign an honor code pledging not to drink, smoke, dance, party, or engage in premarital sex. Another part of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association is the Abundant Life Prayer Group, which operates day and night.[citation needed] Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 1423 KB)Photograph of the Praying Hands bronze scructure at the main entrance to the campus of Oral Roberts University taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 15 September 2004 by Dustin M. Ramsey. ... Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 1423 KB)Photograph of the Praying Hands bronze scructure at the main entrance to the campus of Oral Roberts University taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 15 September 2004 by Dustin M. Ramsey. ... Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a charismatic Christian university with an enrollment of about 5,300 students from most US states along with a number of international students. ... Tulsa redirects here. ... This article is about the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...


In 1977 Roberts claimed to have a vision from a 900-foot-tall Jesus who told him to build City of Faith Medical and Research Center and the hospital would be a success.[4][5] CityPlex Towers City of Faith Medical and Research Center was a massive hospital located at 81st Street and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...


In 1980, Roberts said he had a vision which encouraged him to continue the construction of his City of Faith Medical and Research Center, which opened in 1981. At the time, it was among the largest health facilities of its kind in the world and sought to merge prayer and medicine in the healing process. The City of Faith was in operation for only eight years before closing in late 1989. The Orthopedic Hospital of Oklahoma still operates on its premises. In 1983 Roberts said Jesus had appeared to him in person and commissioned him to find a cure for cancer.[6][7] Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...


In 1987, during a fundraising drive, Roberts announced to a television audience that unless he raised $8 million by that March, God would "call him home" (a euphemism for death).[8][9] Some were fearful that he was referring to suicide given the passionate pleas and tear that accompanied his statement. He raised $9.1 million.[10] Later that year, he announced that God had raised the dead through Roberts' ministry.[11]

the City of Faith Medical and Research Center complex in Tulsa, OK.

He stirred controversy when Time reported in 1987 that he and his son, Richard Roberts as witness, claimed that he had seen his father raise a child from the dead.[12] That year, the Bloom County comic strip recast its character Bill the Cat as a satirized televangelist, "Fundamentally Oral Bill". Also in 1987 "TIME stated that he was "re-emphasizing faith healing and [is] reaching for his old-time constituency."[12] However, his income continued to slide (from $88 million in 1980 to $55 million in 1986, according to the Tulsa Tribune) and his largely vacant City of Faith Medical Center continued to lose money ($10.7 million in 1986 alone).[12] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1360 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1360 pixel, file size: 1. ... CityPlex Towers City of Faith Medical and Research Center was a massive hospital located at 81st Street and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... TIME redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bloom County was a popular American comic strip by Berke Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. ... Bill the Cat Articles with similar titles include Billy the Cat. ... TIME redirects here. ...


Harry McNevin said that in 1988 the ORU Board of Regents "rubber-stamped" the "use of millions in endowment money to buy a Beverly Hills property so that Oral Roberts could have a West Coast office and house."[13] In addition he said a country club membership was purchased for the Roberts's home. The lavish expenses led to McNevin's resignation from the Board.

In a 2004, television broadcast of Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory, the elder Roberts claimed to have experienced a vision in which "Smoke, and vapor, and blood" appeared "in the clouds in the skies above New York City and the east part of the United States, and which hung there for quite some time and then spread out across America, without touching the ground, and then God diffused it away from America and sent it out to the nations of the earth..." This was purportedly a "wake up call" to tell people that Christ's return is soon and to prepare for it. A transcript of this meeting is available online.[14] Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Kenneth Copeland (born December 6, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas) is a prominent and highly controversial Word of Faith television evangelist and the founder of a Christian religious organization called Kenneth Copeland Ministries. ... Believers Voice of Victory is an evangelical television series hosted by televangelist Kenneth Copeland. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Icon of Christ in a Greek Orthodox church This page is about the title, office or what is known in Christian theology as the Divine Person. ...


Currently Roberts, 90, is "semi retired" living in Newport Beach, California,[15] and according to Charity Navigator Roberts earns $83,505 a year.[16] The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association has an overall efficiency rating of 1 out of 4 stars.[16] Newport Harbor redirects here. ... Charity Navigator is an independent, non-profit organization that evaluates American charities. ...


When his son, Richard Roberts, took a leave of absence from his position as President of Oral Roberts University on October 17, 2007 following allegations of misappropriation of school funds, Oral announced he would return to help fulfill this administrative role along with Billy Joe Daugherty, who was named as the executive regent to assume administrative responsibilities of the Office of the President by the ORU Board of Regents.[17] Richard resigned his position on November 24, 2007.[18] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...


Personal life

Roberts' daughter, Rebecca Nash, died in a plane crash on February 11, 1977, with her husband, businessman Marshall Nash.[19] Roberts' eldest son, Ronald, committed suicide in June 1982 at the age of 37, five months after receiving a court order to get counseling at a drug treatment center.[20] Two other children of Roberts are living: son Richard, a well-known evangelist and former president of Oral Roberts University (ORU), and daughter Roberta Potts, a lawyer. Richard Roberts resigned from the presidency of ORU on November 23, 2007 after being named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging improper use of university funds for political and personal purposes and improper use of university resources. Although the lawsuit is still in process, the university has submitted to an outside audit, and with a clear report was then given a $70 million dollar donation.[citation needed] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


From the late 1980's to 1992 Roberts maintained a residence in the exclusive St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida.[citation needed] Roberts would commute via private jet from his base in Oklahoma to Boca Raton airport for weekend visits to his golf club retreat. Most of the other residents of St. Andrews were Jewish, and since Roberts was identified by his first name of Granville when he was visiting Florida his presence went mostly unrecognized.


On May 4, 2005 Evelyn, Roberts' wife of 66 years, died in a Southern California hospital at the age of 88.[21] This article is about the U.S state. ...


According to a 1987 article in the New York Review of Books by Martin Gardner the "most accurate and best documented [biography] is Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana University Press, 1985), an objective impressive study by David Harrell Jr., a historian at the University of Alabama. The strongest critical attacks are in two out-of-print books: James Morris' The Preachers (St Martin's, 1973) and Jerry Sholes's Give me that Prime-Time Religion (Hawthorn, 1979)."[22] The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... Martin Gardner (b. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship school of the University of Alabama System. ... There have been several people named James Morris: James Morris, (1893-01-02–1980-07-20) Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota (1935–1964), a trial judge for the IG Farben Trial. ...


See also

Oral Roberts University or ORU, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a charismatic Christian university with an enrollment of about 5,300 students from most US states along with a number of international students. ... For a description of the personality trait, see Charismatic authority. ... This is a list of televangelists in the United States: Ernest Angley Garner Ted Armstrong Herbert W. Armstrong Jim Bakker Tammy Faye Bakker Malcolm Boyd John R. Brinkley Robert R. Brown Morris Cerullo Kenneth Copeland Paul Crouch Creflo Dollar Richard Dortch Jesse Duplantis Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter III - (Reverend Ike) Jerry... A series of scandals resulted in the destruction of the reputations of several famous Christian evangelists. ...

Popular culture

Berkeley (Berke) Breathed (last name rhymes with method) is a cartoonist, childrens book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best know for his comic strip Bloom County, a 80s era cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues, as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters, and humorous... Bloom County was a popular American comic strip by Berke Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. ... An early Opus appearance in the strip Bloom County Opus the Penguin is a character in the comic strips and childrens books of Berke Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s strip Bloom County. ... Steve Dallas was a fictional unscrupulous lawyer in the 1980s comic strip Bloom County, by Berke Breathed. ... Asphyxia is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body. ... Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is a Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism who reached the height of his popularity in the 1980s. ... Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is the former wife of televangelist and later convicted felon Jim Bakker. ... 19th century Heroin bottle This article is about the drug classification. ... MC 900 Ft. ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ancestry of Oral Roberts
  2. ^ Evelyn Lutman Roberts (1917 - 2005) - Find A Grave Memorial
  3. ^ a b "Oral's Progress", Time (Feb. 07, 1972). Retrieved on 2007-01-04. 
  4. ^ Ideas and Trends: Oral Roberts's Word on Cancer," "New York Times" Jan 30, 1983
  5. ^ "Oral Roberts' Ministry Hits a 'Low Spot'," "Dallas Morning News" Jan 5, 1986
  6. ^ Time, July 4, 1983
  7. ^ "Oral Roberts Seeking Millions for Holy Mission Against Cancer," "Washington Post", Jan 22, 1983
  8. ^ Randi, James (1989), The Faith Healers, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-369-2 and ISBN 0-87975-535-0 pages 186
  9. ^ Ostling, Richard (July 13, 1987). "Raising Eyebrows and the Dead", Time. Retrieved on 2007-12-24. 
  10. ^ Oral Roberts
  11. ^ Randi, James (1989), The Faith Healers, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-369-2 and ISBN 0-87975-535-0 pages 192
  12. ^ a b c Ostling, Richard (Feb. 07, 1972). "Raising Eyebrows and the Dead", Time. Retrieved on 2007-01-04. 
  13. ^ "Oral Roberts' Son Accused of Misspending", Associated Press (November 8, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-05. 
  14. ^ Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts and Richard Roberts. "Wake Up Call".
  15. ^ "Oral Roberts' son, his wife face scandal at university", Los Angeles Times (October 5, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-05. 
  16. ^ a b "Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association", Charity Navigator (October 2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-05. 
  17. ^ Tulsa World, "[1]", 17 October 2007, retrieved 18 October 2007
  18. ^ Associated Press, "[2]", 24 November 2007, retrieved 24 November 2007
  19. ^ Check-Six.com - The Crash of Navajo #838
  20. ^ "Oral Roberts's Son, 37, Found Shot Dead in Car", New York Times (June 10, 1982). Retrieved on 2007-04-01. 
  21. ^ "Oral Roberts: Founder of ORU", Oral Roberts University (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-04. 
  22. ^ Gardener, Martin (August 13, 1987). "Giving God a Hand", New York Review of Books. Retrieved on 2007-10-18. 

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By Roberts The Faith Healers is a 1987 book by magician and skeptic James Randi with a foreword by Carl Sagan. ... James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. ... Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz and publishes scientific, educational, and popular books, especially those of a secular humanist or scientific skepticism nature. ...

  • The Call: An autobiography. by Oral Roberts, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
  • Expect a miracle: my life and ministry. by Oral Roberts, Nashville : T. Nelson, 1995.ISBN 0785277528
  • Oral Roberts' life story, as told by himself. by Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Okla. 1952.

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ORAL ROBERTS (3307 words)
Oral Roberts stated that he received a revelation from God (when he claimed to have seen the 900 foot tall Jesus Christ), and that Jesus Christ specifically told him to build the City of Faith and that it would be successful.
Oral Roberts' claim is that God's definition of success is failure and the merging of His "healing streams" into the world is to build and then close down hospitals, medical training and research centers.
Oral Roberts claimed direct revelation from God regarding Jim Bakker's innocence, in relation to words he gave in his defense of Jim Bakker against the Assemblies of God denomination, Jimmy Swaggart (before his two-time falls), and the Charlotte Observer newspaper who were involved in the disclosure of Jim Bakker's illegal financial dealings.
Oral Roberts (3139 words)
Born in Ponototoc County,Oklahoma, Roberts was reared in abject poverty, the son of a Pentacostal Holiness preacher.
Roberts success in false healing fake evangelism, thrust him to the leadership of a generation of revivalists who took their heretical messege of fake divine healing around the world after 1947.
Oral Roberts emphasis on "Seed Faith" teachings is a departure from biblical faith, which relies on human psychology and pragmatic subjectivism, NOT based on the revealed will of God in scripture.
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