That's a shame that you have never heard of the guy, yet you will take one opinion on the man and make a judgement.
Hank Hanegraaff is president of CRI, or Christian Research Institute (
www.equip.org). Hank has a daily radio broadcast called the Bible Answer Man. Hank is a strong apologist and a strong defender of orthodox christianity.
This is absolutely an idiotic statement. Hanegraaff has written some great books on apologetics and defending classical christianity against religious fads, especially those of the Word of Faith movement. Hank uses a ton of resources in his books. So why is that bad? Hank reads and studies past and current theologians alike. Whom else should you learn from. It sounds, based on what you have said, that one should right a book based on their own opinions and thoughts and not study and research past writers, thinkers, theologians, etc, Hanks new book is filled with resources that lends more to the credibility of his book.
And what IS good about that is that this is not just some idea or theology made up by one man.
What books has HH "written" himself? He certainly did not write "Christianity in Crisis", but he did put his name on it, without giving the credits to those who actually did do the work of putting it together.
He is a proven plagariser. You can google that fact and see online photo copies of a book he wrote and the one from which he copied it, and called it his own, using almost the exact same words, page after page.
You can also google a search and find him speaking a lie in his own words, which is taken from a meeting he had in which he admitted one thing about the purchase price of his then house which was being told about by others and which he was denying publically.
Someone put the tape online with him admitting the true outrageous price.
They also put online him speaking his own words and using profanity behind the scenes.
you might like to ask where all the money he solicits goes to and why his wife is on the payroll without doing work, and why he has become a very rich man living in a very exclusive gated community in a very high priced mansion.
I do not believe in him and believe him to be a bore without any original ideas or understanding in the word of God, nor do I believe he is a theologian, nor have I ever heard him giving any Bible doctrine that was his own understanding of the Word -at any time.
-But to each his own!
BTW: you also might like to go interview the family of Dr Martin and find out how HH took over the radio program. I think they are connected to a website where you can get the facts undisputed about HH and his shady dealings and outright untruths about how he got where he is -which was printed in the LA times and is available to read on many websites.
