The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism

by Anthony A. Hoekema

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1963

Overview

Throughout his texts Hoekema brings both his compassionate council from his years as a pastor as well as his erudite expertise from his 25 years of work in academia as a professor of Bible and systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. In The Four Major Cults, Anthony Hoekema presents the doctrinal teachings of Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, Christian Science, and Jehovah’s Witnesses using exclusively primary sources. He then outlines why he sees each as fundamentally incompatible with the core doctrines of Christianity.

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Contents

• The Challenge of the Cults
• Mormonism
• Seventh-Day Adventism
• Christian Science
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• The Distinctive Traits of the Cult
• Approaching the Cultist

Top Highlights

“Pastors should be fully convinced that their prayers and their ministry to the sick are as vitally important in the healing process as is the care of doctors and nurses. Every pastor can testify that he has witnessed amazing answers to prayer in critical illnesses—answers which have baffled medical science. What one Christian doctor used to say is as true today as it ever was: ‘We only set the bones; God must do the healing.’ While being grateful for the ministry of medicine, let the church not neglect the ministry of prayer.” (Page 8)

“Mormonism Teaches That There Are a Great Many Gods in Addition to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” (Page 36)

“Russell and his associates were disappointed by the Adventist view that Christ was coming again in the flesh, being convinced that His Second Coming would be a spiritual or invisible one. Russell therefore issued a pamphlet entitled The Object and Manner of the Lord’s return, of which some 50,000 copies were published.” (Page 224)

“As James Orr has somewhere remarked, however, every heresy which has obtained wide acceptance has been so accepted because of the grain of truth which was found in it.” (Page 1)

“(8) The cults teach their people definite techniques for witnessing.” (Page 7)

Product Details

• Title: The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism
• Author: Anthony Hoekema
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1963
• Pages: 464
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Introductions
• Topic: World Religions

About Anthony A. Hoekema

Hoekema emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States in 1923. He attended Calvin College (A.B.), the University of Michigan (M.A.), Calvin Theological Seminary (Th.B.) and Princeton Theological Seminary (Th.D., 1953). After serving as minister of several Christian Reformed churches (1944-56) he became associate professor of Bible at Calvin College and later professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He wrote The Four Major Cults (1963), What about Tongue-Speaking? (1966), Holy Spirit Baptism (1972), The Christian Looks at Himself (1975) and The Bible and the Future (1979).