John R. Rice, then editor of The Sword of the Lord, had a falling out with Ruckman around 1972 after Ruckman published his controversial book The Christian’s Handbook of Manuscript Evidence. If this is intriguing to you, the article The deterioration of Ruckman’s language demonstrated in his changing treatment of John R. Rice will be of interest to you.
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It’s funny how his “rap sheet” is listed everytime he speaks (or when ANY Evangelist speaks, for that matter.