Regarding the book: Mishandling the Word of Truth: A Critique of Hyper-Dispensationalism by Dr. Jamin Hübner
https://www.amazon.com/Mishandling-Word-Truth-Critique-Hyper-Dispensationalism/dp/0990594319
Product description
The "Grace Movement" or "Hyper-Dispensationalism" has gained considerable traction in certain spheres of American evangelicalism. As a system of theology, Hyper-Dispensationalism construes the traditional gospel of Christianity in a way has caused considerable problems to practicing Christians and the church at large. Despite growing concern, no book has ever fully attempted to dissect such a complex theology...until now.
In the first book of its kind, Mishandling the Word of Truth examines Hyper-Dispensationalism in a way that the average person can understand and, yet, remains the culmination of years of academic research. Dr. Jamin Hübner, a trained theologian and biblical scholar, goes to great lengths to summarize the controversial theology before going on to critically evaluate it. In the end, readers will learn to be cautious about various "dispensational" and "grace" movements, clarify their understanding about Israel and the church, and gain a deeper appreciation for God's covenantal love in redemptive history.
Review (In favor of the book)
"...this book does not merely address a 'mishandling' of the Word of Truth; it also serves as a sound defense for the need to embrace the unity of the Scriptures as a whole. The book explains the unfolding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as one gospel for all ages. Jamin is particularly gifted in his ability to present difficult matters and distinctions in an understandable and very readable form. Mishandling the Word of Truth is a beneficial read." - Arthur Sartorious, JD, MDiv, Pastor, Black Hills Community Church
"In this very helpful, fair, and irenic work, Jamin Hübner does the evangelical church a service by providing a devastating biblical and theological critique of the movement he labels Hyper-Dispensationalism. For those not familiar with this theology...Hübner not only lays out the historical background of the view, he patiently evaluates its biblical argument with accuracy and precision...I highly commend this work." - Stephen Wellum, PhD, Professor of Christian Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, co-author of Kingdom Through Covenant
From the Author
This book should be particularly useful for those caught up in the 'grace movement,' as well as Christian zionism.
About the Author
Dr. Jamin Hübner is an American theologian, musician, and entrepreneur from South Dakota. He is a graduate of Dordt College (BA Theology), Reformed Theological Seminary (MA Religion) and the University of South Africa (ThD Systematic Theology), and a student at Southern New Hampshire University (MS Economics) and currently serves as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness and founding Chair of Christian Studies at John Witherspoon College.
Review by Ross Purdy (Against the book - thus, the "Ouch!" in the title of this thread)
I hope the 2nd edition was finally proofread because the first edition is an embarrassment to real scholars and theologians. Just as Jamin pulled his first book off the market, he should have done the same with this one. Jamin should not publish his blog grog, especially unedited, and expect folks to pay real money for it.
His book is a boat load of factual errors, typo's and grammatical incoherencies in just the first few pages...and really not a competent exegetical engagement with the Biblicist position of the so-called hyperdispensationalist.
The reason it is so difficult and mentally challenging, as Jamin relates it, to understand the dispensational position is because he is bringing a confession of faith to try and brow beat Bible readers and Bible studiers who are independent and stimulated by the Word of God rather than conceited Calvinists.
Now Pablo's introduction shows that he may be competent to write the book but he endorses Jamin's train wreck! I tell you he has provided the hypers with a howler of a joke book.
Honestly, how did stating that Stam is an Acts 28er get past?
And how is it that Bullinger has anything to do with the Mid-Acts position?
O'Hair rejected his teachings and Stam read Bullinger but has NO part of his Acts 28 position.
Pablo says the footnotes are worth the price of the book but if he had actually read them he would of said something to Jamin to spare him the embarrassment. This is especially astonishing since Pablo claims to have actually been an apologist for the hypers.
The way Jamin has it, the BBS is the governing entity for the Grace Movement since they are in Wisconsin and Jamin has designated Germantown as some kind of capitol/headquarters for the movement.
Also he has the GGF as the up and coming new growth in the movement so never mind the historical facts. Oh!
And of course, somebody needs to write a bunch of letters and inform the GGF, BBF, BBS, BBI, Grace Bible College, St. Louis Bible Institute and Canyon View College that they are all KJV only so they all can have a good long laugh!
Grace School of the Bible promotes KJV only but they are a small drop in the Grace Movement.
Someone needs to inform Kevin Sadler that his father did not succeed Stam nor did Kevin follow in his father's footsteps as lead at the BBS...because according to Jamin, Joel Finck succeeded Stam!
Joel is doing good if he gets to speak at a BBF conference.
Now I have used a bunch of abbreviations for various significant organizations in the Grace Movement...and if you read Jamin's book, you will find out what they stand for and how they are related...NOT!
And how about Douglas Stauffer, Pablo or Jamin should tell him he does not believe in water baptism since he is supposed to be a no water dry cleaner via the Spirit hyperdispensationalist.
Never mind that Stauffer got baptized once by sprinkling and a second time by dunking and has no where stated any regrets nor has he apologized for teaching the Church starts in Acts 2 like every other Baptist dispensationalist.
I don't think any one has ever been so preposterous as to have criticized Stam as being some kinda of Prophet/Apostle providing his hick dupes with extra-biblical revelations from God and promoting his books as a new cannon for the church.
But Jamin says that is what Stam was and did, of course, with the meaningless "it just depends on how you define things" Jamin-qualification...a qualification that Jamin uses as a license to say they are sorta, kinda, near unto, pritinear a cult as can be without being one officially in so many words.
As Jamin says, it just depends on how you define things. If he can define things blogosphere style, he can smear anyone as a near cultist and sling mud at them without restraint, who needs facts and a sense of Christian fairness and evenhandedness.
I expected a scholarly critique of the hyperdispensational position, not a comedy routine.
The world still waits for a SCHOLARLY critique of hyperdispensationalism because this book is just blog grog gone gooey.
Jamin should go back to blogging but he should not post it on the internet because some dumb unsophisticated nincompoop (as Jamin implies all hyperdispensationalists are for having been duped by Stam's supposed cult indoctrination scam) might read it and get brainwashed by it into nonsense.
https://www.amazon.com/Mishandling-Word-Truth-Critique-Hyper-Dispensationalism/dp/0990594319
