Dave Hunt (Christian apologist)
Dave Hunt | |
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Born | David Charles Haddon Hunt September 30, 1926 |
Died | April 5, 2013 Bend, Oregon, U.S. | (aged 86)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1973–2013 |
Known for | Apologetics |
Notable work | The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days |
Spouse | Ruth Klassen (m. 1950–2013; his death) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Albert Hunt Lillian Hunt |
Website | thebereancall.org |
David Charles Haddon Hunt (September 30, 1926 – April 5, 2013) was an American
, among others. Hunt's Christian theology was evangelical dispensational and he was associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement.[3]Early and personal life
David Charles Haddon Hunt was born on September 30, 1926, in Riverside, California, to Lillian and Albert Hunt. He was raised in a Christian family, with two siblings.[4] As a young man, he also spent time in the military, at the end of World War II.[5] He studied at UCLA and married his college sweetheart, Ruth Klaussen (1926–2013). The couple had four children: David Jr., Janna, Karen and Jon. He worked as a CPA before his entry into full-time ministry.[6]
Positions
Hunt believed occult or pagan influences are pervasive in modern culture – this includes evolution, as well as all forms of psychology, some forms of entertainment, yoga, and some forms of medicine. His book Occult Invasion is dedicated to this area, while several other books mention it in part.[7]
Creationism
Hunt was a strict Biblical
...I think you’ve got to be very stubborn to reject God and to say evolution—it all happened by chance. No rational person could support that thesis. And I would challenge anybody....—you know the more they get down—when we discovered electron microscopes and we got down to the molecular level of life, we found that it was far more complex than Darwin realized.[8]
Calvinism
Hunt addressed
Catholicism
In A Woman Rides the Beast, he identified the
Mormonism
The book
Prophecy
Dave Hunt regularly spoke on Bible prophecy, including his book A Cup of Trembling which warned against the then-current peace process.[10]
Other
In 1973 he wrote the screenplay for Time to Run, a Christian film produced for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (Hunt later criticized Graham's ministry for its open ecumenism).
The Seduction of Christianity (co-written with Tom A. McMahon), which categorized Word of Faith teachings, meditation, and psychology-based counseling as New Age heresies, generated much debate in the 1980s. Responses from meditation proponents and from Calvinist re-constructionist writers include Seduction?? A Biblical Response and The Reduction of Christianity. Hunt has written a rejoinder to the latter critics in his Whatever Happened to Heaven?
Hunt wrote about Y2K with the intent of refuting the fearful predictions being made by other Christian fundamentalist writers (Y2K: A Reasoned Response To Mass Hysteria).
In his final book, "Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny", Hunt supported the Creationist viewpoint and alleged that there were deficiencies in both the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution.
Bibliography
- America, Israel and Islam, ISBN 1-929125-32-1
- America, the Sorcerer's New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Shamanism, ISBN 0-89081-651-4
- Battle for the Mind, ISBN 1-928660-09-6
- Beyond Seduction: A Return to Biblical Christianity, ISBN 0-89081-558-5
- Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny, ISBN 978-1-928660-64-4
- Countdown to the Second Coming, ISBN 0-89081-910-6
- The Cult Explosion, ISBN 0-89081-241-1
- A Cup of Trembling: Jerusalem and Bible Prophecy, ISBN 1-56507-334-7
- Death of a Guru, ISBN 0-89081-434-1
- Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views; Dave Hunt and James White, ISBN 1-59052-273-7
- Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist, ISBN 0-89081-831-2
- The God Makers, ISBN 1-56507-717-2
- Honest Doubts, ISBN 1-928660-34-7
- In Defense of the Faith: Biblical Answers to Challenging Questions, ISBN 1-56507-495-5
- Judgment Day! Islam, Israel and the Nations, ISBN 1-928660-32-0
- The Mind Invaders (formerly titled The Archon Conspiracy), ISBN 1-56507-831-4
- The New Spirituality, ISBN 1-56507-121-2
- Occult Invasion, ISBN 1-56507-269-3
- Peace, Prosperity, and the Coming Holocaust subtitled "The New Age Movement in Prophecy", ISBN 0-89081-331-0
- The Power of the Spirit (by ISBN 0-87508-247-5
- Revelation Hoofbeats (contributing author), ISBN 1-59160-873-2
- Sanctuary of the Chosen, ISBN 1-56507-215-4
- Secret Invasion, ISBN 0-89081-560-7
- Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days, ISBN 0-89081-441-4
- Seeking and Finding God, ISBN 1-928660-23-1
- To Russia With Love (formerly titled Mission: Possible), ISBN 978-1-928660-36-1
- Toward the 7th Millennium: A Penetrating Look into the Future (contributing author), ISBN 0-937422-42-8
- Understanding the New Age Movement, ISBN 0-89081-682-4
- Unmasking Mormonism, ISBN 0-89081-801-0
- An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith, ISBN 0-7369-0313-5
- What Love Is This? Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God, ISBN 1-928660-12-6
- Whatever Happened to Heaven, ISBN 0-89081-698-0
- When Will Jesus Come?: Compelling Evidence for the Soon Return of Christ, ISBN 0-7369-1248-7
- A Woman Rides the Beast, ISBN 1-56507-199-9
- Y2K: A Reasoned Response to Mass Hysteria, ISBN 0-7369-0167-1
References
- ^ "'Bold, Loving' Christian Apologist Dave Hunt Passes Away at Age 87". The Christian Post. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ^ "Radio". The Berean Call. 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
- ^ "About Dave Hunt". Chick.com. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ "About Dave Hunt". The Berean Call. Archived from the original on 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ "End Times Prophecy Author Dave Hunt Has Died". Now The End Begins.com. 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ "The Berean Call: About Dave Hunt". The Berean Call. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ISBN 978-1-928660-60-6
- ^ "Can You Believe in the Bible and Evolution?". The Berean Call. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ^ "The Godmakers". YouTube. 2007-11-20. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ "Dave Hunt Rally: Prophecy, Current Events, and the Return of Christ". VCY America. WVCY-TV. 9 September 2000. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
Further reading
- Critical assessments
- OCLC 50339414.
- OCLC 18172813.
- Bunker, Michael (2002). "Chapter 4 A Jesuit Case Study: Dave Hunt". Swarms of Locusts: The Jesuit Attack on the Faith. IUniverse. p. 318. ISBN 0-595-25297-4.
- OCLC 24667142.
- Pelphrey, Brant (Fall 1987). "Negative Thinking in a 'Positive' Age (Book Review of The Seduction of Christianity)". Areopagus. 1 (1): 42–45.
- Reid, Thomas F. (1986). Seduction??: A Biblical Response. OCLC 27631883.
- OCLC 16465119.
- Scharffs, Gilbert W. (1986). The Truth About "The God Makers". OCLC 14145479.
- Tope, Wally (1989). "The God Makers". Areopagus. 3 (1): 48–50.
External links
- The Berean Call Website
- Dave Hunt at IMDb