Died: James W. Sire, Editor Who Brought Us Francis Schaeffer and Os Guinness

‘The Universe Next Door’ author used worldview as a tool for evangelical apologetics.

James W. Sire, the InterVarsity Press (IVP) editor who introduced Christian readers to works by Francis Schaeffer, Os Guinness, C. Stephen Evans, and Rebecca Manley Pippert, died Tuesday at age 84.

As chief editor for IVP, Sire advanced the Christian worldview movement through the books he edited and wrote, most famously his 1976 title The Universe Next Door, which was named one of CT’s books of the year more than 30 years later.

“Sire was a keystone in the intellectual renewal of evangelicalism in the 1960s and 70s,” wrote Andy Le Peau, a longtime editor at IVP, noting that “Sire was first to publish a number of influential figures.” Read More

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James W. Sire's Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways Cults Misread the Bible has strongly influenced my thinking since I first read it in the 1980s. The reading errors that he identifies in Scripture Twisting are not only made by interpreters of the Bible on the fringes of Christianity but also Bible interpreters in a number of mainline denominations. Our responsibility as Bible teachers is not only instruct our fellow Christians in how to "rightly divide the word of God," to interpret it properly, but also to recognize the various ways that Scripture may be twisted and misinterpreted.