A MAN SPOKE, A WORLD LISTENED

by Paul L. Maier ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The author's father was Dr. Walter A. Maier, the founder and speaker of THE INTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN HOUR, a program ""Bringing Christ to the Nations"" which became the largest regular non-government radio program--religious or secular--ever broadcast; it was translated into 36 languages and beamed out by 1,236 stations, and he was heard by an estimated audience of 20,000,000. One supposes that his congregation would have been still larger, were it not for his sudden and untimely death in 1950. This is the story of Dr. Maier's life, and a full and satisfying as well as resoundingly successful life it assuredly was. Magazines characterized him as ""perpetual motion personified"" and a ""20th Century Luther"", and such he certainly must have been to crowd in, besides his radio work, his outstanding scholarship in Semitics, graduate teaching in the Old Testament, full-time magazine editorship, the writing of 31 books and tons of devotional materials, and the roles of ideal father and husband. His oratory was phenomenal, and while his theology was ""unqualifiedly Lutheran"", his message found welcome in every faith. As biography, this book suffers from most of the virtues and several of the vices inherent in the author's too-close yet too-unequal relationship to his subject: ""Pop"" Maier is made to triumph over every problem as only the father of an adoring son ever could.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1963

Categories: NONFICTION