Comments on: Everyone Wants a Piece of Tozer

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:29:00 +0000

Howdy Dan,
Tozer’s books have been very helpful in my walk with Christ.
It is funny that when you google at calvinist sites, they have him listed as an arminian. Yet, when I read his writings I see much of a balance in his view of God (i.e. in the chapter “the Faithfulness of God” in “The Knowledge of the Holy” he says that we are not to neglect God’s mercy when considering his Sovereignity)
Now, there is a book he wrote called “Jesus, Our Man in Glory” from where I extract an interesting excerpt as follow:

[...]People have cornered me and pressured me, asking pointedly, �Are you Calvinistic or Arminian in doctrine?� I think I have effectively parried this thrust by repeating a conversation I once had with a prominent English clergyman of our times. He spoke to me of another minister of his acquaintance, and I asked, �He is a Calvinist, I presume?�
My minister friend smiled with good humor. �Well,� he replied, �I think he is what we might call an equivocating Calvinist! �From a personal point of view and to answer the curious, I would say that the phrase also describes me fairly well!
[...]

Francisco

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:29:00 +0000

Tozer is awesome! He is brilliant and a wonderful man of God!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:49:00 +0000

Tozer writes some good stuff.

Just because he wasn’t a calvinist doesn’t mean he isn’t worth reading.

In fact, the way a lot of people approach Tozer is a very good example in my opinion of how we should approach other Christian writings.

I haven’t run across any Tozer books where he is bashing calvinists. He didn’t appear to be very divisive in his writings which is a good thing. He attempted to speak truth and use Scripture to do it.

AMDG

By: Oengus Moonbones

Oengus Moonbones — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:58:00 +0000

Dan: “Second, I’m really tired of all the hits I get on this blog by people using Google to search for heretics.”

On a jocular note, did you ever see my Swiftian table of HIVs, Heresy Index Values, for various people, which I constructed using Google? I probably should recompute my table adding some of the names from The Church Report’s top 50.

By: Reloaded

Reloaded — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:44:00 +0000

How timely. A person at our church recently forwarded an excerpt from some of Tozer’s writings to the church. It at once inspired many and inflamed many.

I understand how Tozer could be very appealing to many, and I am not one to deny others what works for them when it comes to their faith in Christ, but I personally was nonplussed by his writings about “old cross” and “new cross.” I am quite unable to relate to what comes across to me as black-and-white dogmatism and tendency to generalize.

So, like I said, very timely.

http://breakbread.blogspot.com.....s-and.html