What Is The Difference
I am wondering what are the actual differences between the original Christianity in Crisis versus the Christianity in Crisis, 21st Century?
I purchased a copy of the original book when it was released in 1993 and use it as a reference. In fact, it is one of the few books that I usually do not lend out.
I remember back around that time the controversy of the book and the feathers it ruffled that it was very hard to find it in the locally owned Christian bookstores in my town because of the controversy it created and threatened ‘boycotts’ of that particular Christian bookstore or because of the Church of God (pronounced ‘churchagod’ really fast) beliefs of the owners of the second store. I believe that I actually bought the book at either the old B. Dalton Bookseller or the old Waldenbooks store that used to be in my hometown.
I remember reading stories years ago on the Internet (when the Internet became popular) about how certain people claimed that ‘God gave them a revelation’ of borrowing the book from their friends who bought the book in order to dispose of it claiming that they lost the book and then avoid those people to where one would never have to do the right thing to replenish it. I had read stories online from people years ago who worked in local Christian radio who claimed that many representatives of the faith teachers tried their best to persuade station owners (with more money) to drop the Bible Answer Man radio program and replace it with Word of Faith based programming.
This was the book the Word of Faith televangelists feared more than the late Dr. Walter Martin’s The Kingdom of the Cults, D.R. McConnell’sA Different Gospel: A Historical and Biblical Analysis of the Modern Faith Movement , and R.C. Sproul / C. Everett Koop / Michael Horton’s The Agony of Deceit: What Some TV Preachers are Really Teaching . Where the other books had a niche-market audience, Hanegraaff’s book was able to be publicized in areas never before reached because of the 1991 national exposure via ABC’s PrimeTime Live television show that aired an expose involving Larry Lea, W.V. Grant, and Robert Tilton.
I am very interested in knowing the differences between the two books between what was added, what was deleted, and what was revised.
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McConnell was fair.
HHaanneeggrraaff was just trying to trash people by writing quotes that were ten years old when he wrote them, and which the evangelists in question had recanted as heretical.
I thought McConnell did a good job.
Hank was just trying to buy a bigger Lexus.