Dan Greenfield

Category: McClain, Alva J.

  • A Good Reminder About Government

    The context of this quote is a discussion about Israel’s desire for a king… It is easy to forget that “we the people” in the long run must always pay for whatever the government does for us. Only fools suppose that by committing a matter to the government, they can…

  • McClain and New Evangelicalism

    Previously, I wondered what response McClain had toward new evangelicalism during its rise in the 1940s and 1950s. Recently, while filing a pile of papers, I came across some notes from a chapel at DBTS by Dr. McCune. He and Dr. Priest were doing a series on “Fundamentalist Personalities,” and…

  • Rohrer on McClain

    I finished Norman Rohrer’s book on Dr. Alva J. McClain last night, and I remembered my assessment of this biography: disappointing. I found it disappointing because Rohrer spent large portions of the book on items that weren’t as salient to McClain’s life as other aspects that could have been included.…

  • Alva J. McClain

    I was scheduled to begin teaching a class on the book of Revelation at Great Lakes Bible Institute last night. Alas, freezing rain canceled it. With some time on my hands, I picked up Norman Rohrer’s biography of Alva J. McClain, A Saint in Glory Stands. I bought and read…