I was skeptical of his teaching early on, but carefully and systematically have over the years discovered him to be the most credible christian teacher I have ever followed after, and there have been many. The likelihood is great that most of the readers of Bro Hagin's books really do not care where the information on the pages of the book came from.as long as it is accurate and useful in the living of the christian life. Hagin was not out to impress a bunch of academic windbags, he was just trying to impart information to the reader.
Beyond issues of copyright there are no issues here, and it is a relatively common practice for authors of christian works to ignore these matters entirely, the guiding principle being that anyone and everyone should be free to preach the Gospel any way they want to with no recriminations or sequelae from it.īro. It is like he could have done nothing to please them.įrom a copyright perspective, if Hagin made a derivative work basing the new work on a previous work written by another author, the only one who might have a legitimate gripe would be the author of the first work that the derivative work was based upon. Hagin would have to have only said or written things that both everyone and noone had ever said before. One gets the idea that for some of the "commentators" to be satisfied, Bro.
If a preacher writes or speaks about anything having to do with the Gospel he is stating things that others have said or written, with some room for personal observations. To be a credible preacher of the Gospel requires one to be an uber-plagarist in one sense of the word, but the calling does not bind one to tradition so strongly. As it is now that which is referred to as plagarism is merely a monument to the lack of basic understanding of the factors involved. If Hagin had been a philosopher, researcher, or academic, or had in some way held himself out as an originator of new thought there might be pause for concern. These writers give the issue of alleged plagarism way too much importance.
The Christian Faith is learned and taught by absorbing and passing on information and understanding. BraDavWikipedia 04:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC) Focus on plagiarism exaggerated Accordingly at this moment I have been unable to research on this topic.-Sally from Atlanta - Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.14.60.2 ( talk) 11:47, Janu(UTC) (Not really "unsigned", however, this makes it possible to relate this entry to the page history) Go to any Christian book store and look in the Charismatic section and you'll find a lot of his books. Out of curiosity, I did a search for Hagin, and found nothing by Hagin either, though I did find one by his wife, Oretha Hagin. There are no books by Kenyon in the Atlanta-Fulton County Public library. Those of you who are familiar with the Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library may already be able to guess what I found - nothing.
17.1.2 Allegations of introducing gnostic heresiesīeing greatly disturbed by the accusation of plagiarism on the part of Kenneth Hagin, I determined to find out the truth by obtaining a book by Kenyon from the library and reading it for myself.11 Main article could be improved with additional explanation.8 Intentional or unintentional plagiarism (or both).6 A plea to users participating on this talk page.