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Can Impress. Idaho and Texas are now involved.

Monday, October 14th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson. Introduction

All right, so if we are to review this book properly and with a requisite fairness of mind, we need to get one glaring thing addressed at the outset.

And that is the fact this whole thing appears to be personal. I did not know that when I started in on this book review, but I know it now."

Quote, A pastor in Idaho doesn't have authority over a random church member in Texas."

End quote.

Okay, given our past history of disagreement, given the fact that she quotes both my wife and

me in various places in this book, with less than adequate enthusiasm.

And given the fact that I live in Idaho and she in Texas, it would appear that I should be grateful

that in this statement wasn't supplemented with a footnote that added the helpful contribution of Niner, Niner.

There is a sense, of course, in which this statement of hers is quite correct.

A pastor in Idaho does not have authority over a random Texas parishioner.

But there is another sense in which it is not true at all, and that concerns the authority

of right reason and argument.

If a Texas Christian publishes a book that contains manifest errors, and if an Idaho pastor

point some of them out, then there is a modicum of authority being exercised.

Is there not?

There would be enough authority to require a response. being exercised, is there not?

There would be enough authority to require a response from the Texas writer, would there

not?

So let us say, in a foreshadowing way, that later on in this book it turns out that Miller cites me for having said

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