Top Selling Author Dreher: Hank is Orthodox-GREAT!

Top Selling Author Dreher: Hank is Orthodox-GREAT!

After news of Hanegraaff's conversion, New York Times best-selling author Rod Dreher of "The Benedict Option" -- himself a convert to Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism -- congratulated him with these words: "What astounding news! Many evangelicals seek the early church; well, here it is, in Orthodoxy."

The one Orthodox church is Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox and what Negrut called the "Orthodox diaspora" -- those Orthodox churches in Western Europe, the Americas, Africa, Japan, China and Australia.

According to Negrut, Orthodox theologians also say that church tradition -- that is, decisions of church councils and the teachings of the Church Fathers -- stands alongside Scripture as a religious authority. In Orthodoxy, tradition completes Scripture and vice versa, Negrut wrote.

Hanegraaff told listeners that he believes in the supremacy of Scripture during the same radio broadcast, April 10, in which he confirmed his conversion to Orthodoxy.

"In terms of sola Scriptura, I've always been committed to the Bible as the infallible guide for faith and practice," Hanegraaff said. "I think that's what it means. It means that the Bible is infallible.

It was inspired by the Holy Spirit."

Yet, he added, Christians "also have church history. And church history is very, very important because the practices of the early Christian church have been passed down to us…. Men are not infallible. It is only Scripture that ultimately is infallible. But we have a guide, an oral tradition that we are blessed to be able to follow as well."

According to Roberts, Hanegraaff likely has accepted a Western version of Orthodoxy, interpreted through an evangelical lens. Whatever Hanegraaff's understanding of Orthodoxy, Roberts said he can't understand how Hanegraaff can endorse a branch of Christianity that currently teaches unbiblical doctrines and ceremonies, while in some places also persecuting evangelicals in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe as well as the Mideast.

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