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Theologically, Hunt is Evangelical , "progressively" Dispensational , Arminian (though he does hold to Perseverance Of The Saints ), and is associated with the Plymouth Brethren Movement. EARLY LIFE Hunt was born in 1926 and raised in a Christian family. He is an alumni of UCLA and is married with four children. He worked as a CPA before his entry into full-time ministry. {Link without Title} CONTROVERSIES His works criticizing what he considers false doctrines have caused several controversies. Calvinism Hunt addressed Calvinism in a book called ''What Love is This? Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God'', published in 2002 and revised in 2004, which became one of his most controversial works. The accuracy of the book is disputed, especially its treatment of Calvinist sources such as Charles Spurgeon . Also published in 2004 was ''Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views'', co-written in a debate format by Hunt and Calvinist theologian and translation consultant James White . Catholicism In ''A Woman Rides the Beast'', he identifies the Roman Catholic Church as the Whore Of Babylon from the prophecies in chapters 17 and 18 of the Book Of Revelation , a position advocated by some Protestant Reformers . Catholics, and even many modern-day evangelicals vehemently dispute this claim. Mormonism ''The God-Makers''), co-written with Ed Decker, and the accompanying film of the same title, was a provocative expose on Mormonism . Several of the claims raised in both the book and film were rejected by other apologists in the Christian Countercult Movement as inaccurate. Other ''The Seduction of Christianity'', co-written with Tom McMahon, generated much debate and replies from Pentecostal writers (''Seduction?? A Biblical Response'') and from Calvinist reconstructionist writers (''The Reduction of Christianity''). Hunt has written a rejoinder to the latter critics in his ''Whatever Happened to Heaven?'' His interpretation of the New Age movement in biblical prophecy (''Peace, Prosperity and the Coming Holocaust'') was rejected by other apologists as an inaccurate portrait. Christian scholars such as Irving Hexham, and some of the staff writers who worked in the Spiritual Counterfeits Project ministry in California, raised this problem especially in view of Hunt's Conspiracy Theory . One concern these critics raise is the validity of Hunt's interpretation of both contemporary events and their conjectured relationship to passages of bible prophecy. Another general concern is that conspiracy interpretations may have a perceived historical connection with anti-Semitism, although Hunt is unquestionably an outspoken proponent of both the state of Israel and the continuing role of the Jews as the God's Chosen People. Hunt's works have also been the object of analysis in the work of the sociologist of religion Douglas E. Cowan. Cowan argues that Hunt's writings offer a case study in what sociologists refer to as the "social construction of reality" and "boundary-maintenance" of beliefs. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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