Bill Potter, my friend of more than twenty years and comrade tour leader for our Faith and Freedom Tour, provides insightful book reviews for Vision Forum on our special Book Blog. This week, Bill reviews the new biography entitled Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life, by Sean Michael Lucas, published by Presbyterian and Reformed.
Lucas’s book will not be remembered as the last word on Dabney, but his writing is nonetheless a mostly credible contribution to remembering this great Reformed father. (P.S. The book takes a mild potshot at me for the sentiments communicated in my booklette Robert Louis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks.)
Bill (who named one of his own children Dabney) has been a student of Dabney for more than three decades, and is eminently qualified to evaluate Lucas’s work. As a book critic, however, Bill Potter is a man of great restraint. You will note that he neither unleashes both barrels on Lucas, nor does he schmooze over the author’s PC psychologizing.