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He continued his faith-healing services both in the U.S. The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, became the parent organization for this and other endeavours, including a publishing firm, and Roberts became known for his luxurious way of life. He studied at Oklahoma Baptist College (1943–45) and other religious universities part-time.Ĭlaiming to have received direct communications from God, Roberts began an itinerant ministry of faith healing in the late 1940s. He spent 12 years as a pastor in several towns in the South and built up his own organization, the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Three years later he married Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock, a preacher’s daughter. In 1935 he underwent a conversion experience in which he believed that he was miraculously healed.

The fifth and youngest child of a desperately poor Pentecostal preacher and farmer, Roberts suffered a nearly fatal case of tuberculosis as a teenager and failed to finish high school. A groundbreaking televangelist, Roberts mentored a number of younger ministers who went on to have television and multimedia empires of their own. Roberts was one of the first proponents of the “ prosperity gospel,” a theology teaching that God desires temporal happiness and security for his faithful and rewards devotion and generous tithing or donations with financial wealth and other blessings.

Oral Roberts, in full Granville Oral Roberts, (born January 24, 1918, near Ada, Oklahoma, U.S.-died December 15, 2009, Newport Beach, California), American Pentecostal evangelist known for his televised faith-healing ministry.

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