I have said it before: If there is any area in the Christian world
that is dominated by superstition and speculation, it is spiritual
warfare and the existence and activity of Satan and his demons. Far too
many books on these topics are subjective and speculative rather than
grounded in the firm truths of Scripture.
Frederick Leahy’s Satan Cast Out began as a project, an
assignment. Back in the 1970s the Foreign Mission Board of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church in Ireland asked Leahy to make a special study of
demonology. They did this in response to phenomena that missionaries had
been observing on the mission field. To that point very little had been
written on the subject and it was discussed in only a passing way in
seminaries. Leahy realized, “There is a crying need for an examination
of this whole subject in the light of the Scripture alone, bearing in
mind that the Scriptures are our only rule of faith and practice.” While
his study is now nearly 40 years old, it remains in print and remains a
powerful read. Continue at Tim Challies
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