About this title: The president of the Christian Research Institute reveals the truth behind today's counterfeit revivals. Hank Hanegraaff steps to the forefront in the discussion on today's most visible--and controversial--revival movements. He is author of the bestselling "Christianity in Crisis", as well as "Personal Witness Training" and "Memory Dynamics".
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780849911828ISBN:0849911826
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780849911828ISBN:0849911826
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Publisher: Nelsonword Publishing Group
ISBN-13:9780849937576ISBN:0849937574
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"The Good: Counterfeit Revival offers an interesting history lesson on the neo-charismatic/revivalist sector of the church. Hanegraaff connects many of the dots between the revival leaders of yore, such as Katherine Kuhlman and William Branham and their modern day counterparts, Benny Hinn, John Arnott, Bob Jones, etc. Personally, I've always found one of the most fascinating aspects of the signs and wonders movement to be the extremely close-knit atmosphere of the leadership. Everyone knows everyone else, and according to Hanegraaff, they all share the same root going back to the Azusa Street Revival. I also appreciated that Hanegraaff's criticisms of what he calls the Counterfeit Revival were countered with what he believes to be a better approach for the church. It's all well and good to tear down someone else's argument, but in order for a criticism to be truly constructive, I think you have to provide an alternative way. Hanegraaff did this, revealing a heart for church reformation, which I thought was laudable despite the book's flaws.
The Bad: My first quibble is a personal pet peeve. I really hate it when authors get overly cutesy. Hanegraaff has a thing for acronyms and alliteration. He said his goal was to help readers remember his points, but I found the abundance of them extremely distracting. Not to mention annoying. I also found his organization to be a bit incoherent. There wasn't a whole lot of structure to the book, which made it difficult for me to follow. Parts of it were extremely repetitive, as he retold stories over again in different sections to illustrate his points. Reading the book, I often had a strange feeling of deja vu. Some of the stories Hanegraaff would half tell and leave the reader hanging. One in particular I remember was when he told a story about a man who went to India (I think) without learning the language because he believed that God would grant him the gift of tongues. And as I'm waiting to hear about the hilarity that ensued, Hanegraaff abruptly ends the narrative with something like, "and that was for sure a disaster. Moving on..." What? How do you end a story like that? It's just cruel.
My more serious critiques of Counterfeit Revival have to do with the lack of serious biblical analysis of the revivalist movement. Hanegraaff spends a great deal of time proving why Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley (two respected preachers who are often cited by revivalists to lend credibility to the signs and wonders movement) would not have approved of the excesses at the Brownsville Revival and Toronto Blessing. While I do think it's worthwhile to establish what Edwards and Wesley really believed about manifestations such as holy laughter and being drunk in the spirit, it is not a critical issue, at least for me. Even if Edwards would have thoroughly disapproved of the Toronto Blessing or Rick Joyner's teachings, that does not mean that God disapproves. It's God's view of this whole thing that counts, not a long-dead preacher's. I'm not saying that Hanegraaff himself believes this at all, but the book tends to conflate Edwards' opinion with God's. If Edwards wouldn't like it, then it is just not to be liked. I would have appreciated more biblical inquiry into why the signs and wonders movement is in error. There was a little bit of it when Hanegraaff briefly mentions some scriptures that revivalists use to show that strange spiritual manifestations took place in the Bible, but for the most part Hanegraaff leaves the debunking to the reader with something like, "Any serious study of these scriptures will show that the counterfeit revivalists' interpretations are ridiculous." The end. It was disappointing.
I chose to give Countefeit Revival three stars because it did offer a lot of information on the revivalist movement. It was an interesting read, at times even shocking. But I don't think it's all that convincing. If you want a sort of broad overview of the neo-charismatics, it's not a bad starting point as long as you know ahead of time that it's mainly about history, biography and the power of hypnotism. A solid biblical critique will have to be found elsewhere."
"Hanegraaff has a passion for truth. And he is a master at examining and exposing modern day false teachers. He does plenty of that in this excellent book."
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