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Work #1171 · Late

Just As I Am

William Franklin "Billy" Graham
1997 · English
Autobiography · American evangelical Protestantism / Southern Baptist tradition

Billy Graham's 1997 autobiography — the life of the twentieth century's most prominent evangelical preacher

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Attribute Just As I Am (Late)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Just As I Am

The 1918-1997 life-arc Graham narrates.

Space

Just As I Am

North Carolina, Los Angeles, the international Crusade-circuit; the American religious-political setting.

Matter

Just As I Am

The embodied Graham across decades of public ministry.

Observer

Just As I Am

Graham as autobiographical subject and elder-evangelical witness.

Energy

Just As I Am

The evangelistic-ministerial energies of half a century of public preaching.

Information

Just As I Am

The autobiographical content of the major evangelical-life narrative.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Just As I Am

Graham's autobiography has been variously assessed — evangelical readers see major elder-statesperson memoir, critics on left and right have addressed his political-presidential entanglements and his late-life self-correction on those.