University founder had complications from pneumonia; he was 91
TULSA, Okla - Oral Roberts, a pioneer in televangelism who founded a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, California, according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006.
Roberts was a pioneer who broadcast his spirit-filled revivals on television, a new frontier for religion when he started in the 1950s. He was also a forerunner of the controversial "prosperity gospel" that has come to dominate televangelism. The evangelist's "Seed-Faith" theology held that those who give to God will get things in return.
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4 comments:
I remember watching him in the mid fifties. He was a giant in tv. He used to heal ppl by slapping them in the forehead.
I remember him saying Katrina was God's revenge on N.O. for homosexuals.
good riddance
all about $$$
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