Hank Hanegraaff

Hank Hanegraaff
Hanegraaff in St. Louis, August 30, 2007
Born	1950 Netherlands
Occupation	Author, radio talk-show host and advocate of Christianity
Language	English
Nationality	American
Subject	Criticisms of non-Christian religions, new religious movements or cults and heresies within Christianity
Notable works	Christianity in Crisis, Counterfeit Revival, The Kingdom of the Cults
Spouse	Kathy
Children	12

Hendrik "Hank" Hanegraaff (born 1950), also known as the "Bible Answer Man", is an American Christian author and radio talk-show host. Formerly an Evangelical Christian, he joined the Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination in 2017. He is an outspoken figure within the Christian countercult movement where he has established a reputation for his criticisms of non-Christian religions, new religious movements and cults, as well as heresy in Christianity. He is also a apologist on doctrinal and cultural issues.

Prior to becoming a leading figure in the Christian countercult movement, Hanegraaff was closely affiliated with the ministry of D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida. During his association with Kennedy in the 1980s, he applied memory-based techniques (such as acrostic mnemonics) to summarise strategies, methods and techniques in Christian evangelism. His work bears resemblances to memory dynamics techniques developed in speed-reading courses and in memory training programs used in some executive business courses.

During the late 1980s, Hanegraaff became associated with Walter Martin at the Christian Research Institute (CRI), the conservative Protestant countercult and apologetic ministry which Martin founded in 1960.

After Martin's death from heart failure in June 1989, Hanegraaff became president of CRI. As part of his role as ministry president, Hanegraaff assumed the role from Martin of anchorman on the radio program The Bible Answer Man. Hanegraaff became a conference speaker and itinerant preacher in churches, where he pursued the general ministry charter of CRI. Shortly after the release of Dan Brown's novel, he co-authored The DaVinci Code: Fact or Fiction? with Lutheran apologist Paul Maier. His most recent publication is Has God Spoken?, from Thomas Nelson in 2011.