Val Waldeck is a South African Christian writer. This little e-book,
excerpted from a longer work, isn't particularly interesting, unless you want
an easy guide to Trinitarian proof texts or early Church controversies. Not bad
in itself, perhaps, but since the e-book is marketed as a polemic against
Oneness Pentecostals, it might be somewhat disappointing to find that most of
it isn't specifically about this current. Indeed, about half of the e-book
isn't about the Trinity either, but a general overview of evangelicalism and
“how to spot a cult”. Waldeck's definition of cult is the usual one among
evangelicals: anyone who isn't, well, evangelical is therefore cultic! I'm not
sure if that approach computes with “reasoning together” with an Oneness
believer… I'm not sure how to rate this work. On the one hand, the summary of
pro-Trinitarian arguments is very well done, certainly for a summary. On the
other hand, most other material feels like “filler” and can also be found
(verbatim) in other e-books in this series. Two-and-a-half
stars?
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