You said -- "As I recall, he took over from Dr Walter Martin."
I didn't know that Dave Hunt had a connection with Walter Martin. Maybe he did. But, as far as taking over -- the organization that Walter Martin had was taken over by Hank Hanegraaff (AKA, the Bible Answer Man). There was a controversy about that, and there's still some controversy about Hanegraaff, even today.
You also said -- "Though he's very hostile to Holy Spirit operating a la Acts 2; I Cor 12-14 in our era."
I've got disagreements in my own close and immediate family about that, too -- not to say anything about my extended family (on both sides of the fence), and the rest of the Christian world. Hey..., I've got some people thinking Benny Hinn is the coming Messiah (from the way they talk to me, and that he raises the dead). Doesn't Dave Hunt have a book on Benny Hinn (or is that some other author)?
And then -- "Dave Hunt was narrow, rigid, hostile, parochial, prissy, arrogant, etc., in his attacks on many good men of GOD who mainly just didn't happen to see peripheral things as he did."
I've read several of his books, and been at meetings to hear him speak directly, and have listened to several of his radio shows -- and have never found him to be that way. I've found that he's heavy on documenting things and taking materials that others have written and/or said and provided those things in his books or when he's speaking -- and then -- has offered people to come back and correct what he has or deny it or explain it. So far, he's never been told that what he's quoted or written down or said was wrong (in terms of referring to other people's positions and what they did and said). He goes to great lengths to explain these things and make them clear.
And the fact of the matter is there is a lot of totally dumb stuff that some of these other preachers and/or leaders say and do.
If others are wondering about that -- check it out at his web site --
http://www.thebereancall.org/
Regards,
Star Traveler
I'd be happy to be wrong about DAve.
I do recall some folks calling him to account about being wrong on some set of things about someone but I don't recall specifically what.
Dr. Walter Martin -- "The Bible Answer Man" -- handed his mantel to Hank Hannegraf.