http://www.capitolhillbaptist.org/audio/2013/10/where-did-all-these-calvinists-come-from/
I admit, I was shocked that Dever never mentioned James White and his influence of reformed theology proper and his reformed apologetics in Evangelicalism and the world at large (Islam, Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, etc). Rap groups makes Dever's list as one of the most Reformed influences. But no mention of White.
So this blunderous lacuna on Dever's part skews his lecture on Calvinism. Other than that, it was a helpful overview.
It's one thing to say White has done a lot of work in certain areas of apologetics. It's another to say he has had a high level of influence--of the kind that produces "converts" (for lack of a better word) to Calvinism. I've never thought of White as influential in the latter sense.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean that in an insulting way. In an ultimate sense, "influence" is as ephemeral as it is inconsequential.