What was the name of the man that was Billy Grahams partner evangelist who later became an atheist?

Question

Just the name please

Thankyou Gary B

Answer 1

Charles Templeton

Answer 2

Charles Templeton worked as a journalist before he spent a very brief time as an evangelist.

He wasn't an atheist he was an agnostic. He questioned things and he also admitted to losing his faith. He began to doubt but there is no mention that he was an atheist.

agnostic definition
1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
–adjective 3. of or pertaining to agnostics or agnosticism.
4. asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agnostic

His Biography from the CBC
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/06/07/templeton_010607

His sons website
http://www.templetons.com/brad/cbt.html

His son wrote a biography and mentioned that he had married a second time and that his mother was an actress who was famous. If she was so famous why can't I find one single picture of her on the web?

She's not even mentioned on this site at all. You would think if she is considered a very famous actress that she would at least be mentioned here. She's not mentioned under her maiden name or her married name. Strange.

http://www.northernstars.ca/actors-m.html
http://www.northernstars.ca/actors-t.html

It is interesting that his son put up a few of his christian writings on his website. http://www.templetons.com/charles/jesus/

Answer 3

Last name is Templeton. He worked with Billy Graham for Youth For Christ when the wto were younger. Interesting that he has been all but forgotten, even though he has written osme fairly good books.

Answer 4

Charles Templeton (1915 - 2001)

Answer 5

Kenneth Nahigian
an Eastern Orthodox denomination

Answer 6

Billy Graham was an anti-semite who claimed Jews controlled the American media!!! ridiculous!! - how can you take him seriously after that


Graham was advising Richard Nixon on campaign strategy during a 90-minute conversation after a prayer breakfast on Feb. 1, 1972. There he tells a delighted Nixon that Jews have a stranglehold on America "that has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain."

Then, again addressing Nixon, the revered evangelist turned toady says: "But if you get elected a second time, then maybe we might be able to do something." The Nazis did something; they called it the "Final Solution."
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0325-06.htm

Answer 7

http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/a_skeptic_reflects_upon_jesus_christ

There was a time when Charles Templeton was one of the most popular sectarian evangelists in the nation. He was a bosom buddy of Billy Graham—they were, at times, preaching team-mates. During the 1950s and ‘60s, Templeton preached to crowds of 10,000 to 30,000 nightly. He packed stadiums and thrilled audiences with his proclamation of “the gospel of Christ,” as he believed it to be—from his misguided denominational vantage point.

Along the way, however, gnawing doubts began to work on his mind. He started questioning the reliability of the Bible. He whole-heartedly swallowed the Darwinian view of “evolutionary” history. He now confesses that he “always doubted the Genesis account of creation,” and he secretly rejected the biblical teaching of final punishment for the disobedient. Unquestionably, then, he labored for years under the burden of a progressively hardening heart. He was hypocrisy personified. Finally, he could bear it no longer. He cut loose from it all. To use his own words, he bade “farewell to God.”

In doing research for his latest book, The Case For Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000), Strobel sought out and was granted an interview with Templeton in his penthouse apartment on the 25th floor of a high rise in Toronto, Canada.

During the course of their conversation, Charles Templeton had again vigorously defended his disavowal of God and his rejection of the Bible. There was no apparent chink in the armor of his callused soul. Then, Strobel directed the old gentleman’s attention to Christ. How would he now assess Jesus at this stage of his life?

Strobel says that, amazingly, Templeton’s “body language softened.” His voice took on a “melancholy and reflective tone.” And then, incredibly, he said:


“He was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I’ve ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world.”

Mind you, he’s talking about the same Teacher who claimed to have existed eternally before Abraham was born (Jn. 8:58), who asserted his oneness of nature with God, the Father (Jn. 10:30), and who allowed men to honor him as “Lord and God” (Jn. 20:28). Which—if these things were not true—makes Jesus of Nazareth the most preposterous and outrageous “con-man” who ever walked the earth. Thousands happily went to their deaths, in the most horrible ways imaginable, confessing his deity.

But the interview continued.

Strobel quietly commented: “You sound like you really care about him.”

“Well, yes,” Templeton acknowledged, “he’s the most important thing in my life.” He stammered: “I . . . I . . . I adore him . . . Everything good I know, everything decent I know, everything pure I know, I learned from Jesus.”

Strobel was stunned. He listened in shock. He says that Templeton’s voice began to crack. He then said, “I . . . miss . . . him!” With that the old man burst into tears; with shaking frame, he wept bitterly.

Finally, Templeton gained control of his emotions and wiped away the tears. “Enough of that,” he said, as he waved his hand, as if to suggest that there would be no more questions along that line.

Sad, sad indeed!

The precious Lord Jesus cannot be so easily dismissed from the mind of one who has had more than a passing acquaintance with him. One may dispute with Christ, reject him, curse him in one breath and praise him in another. But he is there!

Twenty millennia have faded into silence, and yet, Jesus of Nazareth is still the most eloquent and engaging figure of human history. His “ghost” haunts even the dark souls of some who profess no faith in the reality that he is the Son of God.

Answer 8

No such person.