Appendix F

Sources and Bibliography

What the book quotes, and where to find it

Every chapter of this book quotes Finis Dake by page, and every footnote names the book, the printing and the page. Here those sources are gathered in one place, with a short list for further study at the end.

Dake’s books did not all reach me in the same form. His course and his 1950 books carry printed page numbers, so they are cited by page. Some of his booklets, and the books compiled from his writings after his death, carry no page numbers at all. Those are cited by chapter or section heading. Where a work is known to me only because another writer quotes it, the entry says so.

Dake’s own works

The Study Bible

Dake, Finis Jennings. Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales. Copyright 1963; New Testament portion copyright 1961.

Dake’s Study Bible is the King James text with his notes in the side columns, and it has been printed many times. Its text has not stayed the same across those printings. Dake died on July 7, 1987, and nothing in the race note changed while he lived. Beginning with the 1988 printing, the note was changed in stages, and the Bible never told its readers so. Chapter 22 tells that history, and Appendix C sets the printings side by side. For that reason every citation of the Study Bible in this book names the printing or setting it comes from. These are the ones cited:

The original wording. This label covers any printing before 1988. The pages photographed for this book come from two of my own copies. One is my 1965 printing. The other is the Large Note Edition, First Printing, August 1979, whose copyright page is photographed in Chapter 20. Its title page gives the publisher as Dake Bible Sales, Inc., of Lawrenceville, Georgia.¹ The 1979 Large Note Edition is the base text of Appendix B, and its notes, index and preface are quoted in Chapters 20 to 22.

The classic setting. This is the type of the original printings. Where a classic page is cited from a scan whose printing year its pages do not show, the citation says “classic setting” and gives no year.

The 1990 and 1992 printings. My own 1990 printing shows the race note with new words pasted over the old ones. The 1992 printing, from a scan in my research files, shows the note set in new type and rewritten. Both are quoted in Chapter 22 and Appendix C.

The newer typeset edition. This is the later resetting of the whole Bible. Its notes pages often print two numbers in the running head, its own page and the classic page in parentheses, and the citations give both where the page does. Two witnesses of it are cited. One is a set of scans of a 2009 printing of N.T. pp. 275–276, where the note “Separation in Scripture” now stands. The other is a complete copy of the edition, which carries no date. Apart from the race material, Dake’s teaching changed very little across the printings, so the doctrine chapters often quote this edition beside the classic setting.

I own about a dozen printings of the Dake Bible, from the first full edition of the early 1960s to a printing of the 2000s. Appendix C lists each one and says which pages of it have been photographed so far. Dake Publishing now also issues the Dake Bible with the New King James text (ISBN 978-1-55829-093-8). That edition is mentioned in a few notes and is not quoted.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Owner’s Manual. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales, Inc., n.d.

The publisher issued this booklet, and Dake is not named as its author. Chapter 2 cites it for biographical details that appear in none of Dake’s own books.

God’s Plan for Man

Dake, Finis Jennings. God’s Plan for Man. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales, 1949; 1977 printing.

This is Dake’s course on the whole Bible, and it states his doctrine of God at greater length than anything else he wrote. It runs to fifty-two lessons, one for each week of the year, arranged in four parts, with a supplement after each pair of lessons. It was first issued in twenty-six loose-leaf books and mailed to students as a correspondence course, and Bible Research Foundation was its first publisher.² This book quotes the one-volume 1977 printing, and every page number given for the course is a printed page number of that printing. Its copyright page reads:

© Copyright 1949 by Finis Jennings Dake
© Copyright renewed 1977 by Finis Jennings Dake
All rights reserved in the U.S.A. and other countries. Finis Jennings Dake, God’s Plan for Man (1977 printing), copyright page³

The Foreword to the 1977 printing is unsigned and speaks of Dake as “the author,” so it is the publisher’s text. Where a chapter quotes it, the chapter labels it as the publisher’s words.

Bible Truths Unmasked

Dake, Finis Jennings. Bible Truths Unmasked. Atlanta: Bible Research Foundation, 1950.

This 1950 book sets out Dake’s teaching on prayer, healing, faith and the believer’s authority over Satan, and Chapter 18 relies on it most. It was published in Atlanta by Bible Research Foundation, before the Lawrenceville imprint that issued his later books. Its back pages advertise his course, his charts and his other titles, and Chapter 2 quotes that advertising. Its title page lists his other works, among them the booklet named below, and carries an epigraph from Charles G. Finney that Chapter 24 quotes. Its copyright page reads:

Copyright 1950
By
Bible Research Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 4446
Atlanta 2, Georgia, U. S. A.
Printed in the United States of America Finis Jennings Dake, Bible Truths Unmasked, copyright page

Revelation Expounded

Dake, Finis Jennings. Revelation Expounded or Eternal Mysteries Simplified. Enlarged ed. Copyright 1950. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales, n.d.

This is Dake’s early book on prophecy. Its preface dates the original manuscript to 1926, when he was twenty-four, and calls the enlarged edition “This second edition”; the date of the first edition is not known.⁴ The same preface states the rule of literal reading that Chapter 4 examines. The copy cited gives this imprint and copyright notice:

Dake Bible Sales, Inc. P. O. Box 173 Lawrenceville, Georgia 30245
©
Enlarged edition copyright 1950
by Finis Jennings Dake
Printed in the United States of America Finis Jennings Dake, Revelation Expounded or Eternal Mysteries Simplified, title page (first line) and copyright page

The address carries a five-digit ZIP code, which the Post Office introduced in 1963. So the copy is a later printing of the 1950 text, and its pages do not say which year. Its printed page numbers survive, and the chapters cite it by page where they can.

Two booklets

Dake, Finis Jennings. The Truth About the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. N.d.

This booklet is one of a series of “Truth About” titles listed among Dake’s works on the title page of Bible Truths Unmasked. The copy cited has no page numbers, so it is cited by its Roman-numeral sections. Chapter 14 uses it most, and Chapters 1 and 13 quote it as well.

Dake, Finis Jennings. The Rapture and the Second Coming. N.d. Foreword dated Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1977.

Only its foreword is cited. Dake signed it in 1977 and wrote it in the first person, and Chapter 2 takes his stories of the dime and of Mussolini from it.⁵

Books compiled after his death

Three books carry Dake’s name as author but were put together by his family’s company, Dake Publishing, after he died. This book cites each of them as a compilation and rests no teaching on them alone. Where a compilation and a book Dake published in his lifetime say the same thing, the chapters cite the book he published. The editor of Heavenly Hosts describes how it was made:

“The thoughts are Dake’s own, as is a significant portion of the text. However, because the material is a compilation from his other writings, portions of the narrative have been constructed in order to provide a necessary flow from point to point. . . . All in all though, this is a book by Finis Jennings Dake.” David Patton, editor, preface to Heavenly Hosts, Dake Publishing, May 1995⁶

Dake, Finis Jennings. Heavenly Hosts. Edited by David Patton. Dake Publishing, 1995.

The copyright belongs to three of Dake’s children, Finette Dake Kennedy, Annabeth Dake Germaine and Finis Jennings Dake, Jr. The copy cited has no page numbers, so it is cited by its five chapters and their section headings. Chapter 19 uses it for angels and demons, and Chapters 2, 10, 17, 18 and 23 quote it too.

Dake, Finis Jennings. Another Time... Another Place... Another Man: A Biblical Alternative to the Traditional View of Creation. Edited by Mark Allison and David Patton. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Publishing, 1997; second printing, March 2000.

Its copyright page calls it “Based on the writings of Finis Dake,” and David Patton’s introduction to the series is dated January 1997. Chapter 15 quotes it as the editors’ words.

Dake, Finis Jennings. Ages and Dispensations. Dake Publishing, n.d.

The copy cited has no copyright page. It refers readers to “our book” Another Time... Another Place... Another Man, so it was published after 1997. It is cited by section heading, in Chapters 2 and 12.

Dake Reference Library. Dake Publishing, 2006. Packaging.

The publisher’s packaging for this set prints endorsements of the Dake Bible over the names of several living preachers. Chapter 23 reports them as the publisher’s promotion.

The documents

Photographs of the Study Bible

Where a page of the Study Bible is the evidence, the chapter shows a photograph of it. Every photograph is hosted on this site. Appendix B holds N.T. p. 159 in the 1979 Large Note Edition and in my 1965 printing, with the full transcription. Chapters 20 and 21 show the Old Testament notes, the index entry and the N.T. p. 144 pointer from the 1979 Large Note Edition. Chapter 22 shows the 1990 and 1992 pages and the 2009 pages of “Separation in Scripture.”

The newspapers of 1936 and 1937

The federal case of 1936–37 is told from the newspapers of the time. Appendix A lists forty-eight entries, each with its paper, date, page and headline, and links each to a copy of the page on this site. Forty-five are pages from twenty-eight newspapers printed between May 27, 1936, and July 22, 1937. Many of the stories came from the wire services: the Associated Press, United Press and International News Service. One of them, the Iberia Sentinel of July 22, 1937, reprints an account from the Chicago Herald and Examiner, which is known here only through that reprint. Chapter 3 tells the story from these pages.

The notices of 1987

The other three entries in Appendix A are the Atlanta notices of 1987. They are the sources for Dake’s birth and death dates throughout the book.

“The Rev. Finis J. Dake Sr., publisher of Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible.” Atlanta Constitution, July 11, 1987, 57.

This is his obituary. It gives his birth on October 18, 1902, in Miller County, Missouri, and records his radio program on WGST in Atlanta in the 1950s.

Death notice for Finis Jennings Dake. Atlanta Journal, July 8, 1987, 61.

Death notice for Dorothy (Dobbins) Dake. Atlanta Journal, February 20, 1987, 23.

The credential records

Assemblies of God ministerial credential records for Finis Jennings Dake. Unpublished. Copies in my possession.

These records show that the Assemblies of God revoked Dake’s ministerial credentials in March 1937. No newspaper in Appendix A mentions it. Chapters 2 and 3 and Appendix A cite them.

The law

White-Slave Traffic Act, ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825 (1910), commonly called the Mann Act; codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. sec. 2421 et seq.

Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470 (1917).

Chapter 3 cites both to explain the charge Dake faced.

Writings about Dake

Bible, Leon. Finis Jennings Dake: His Life and Ministry. Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Publishing, 2006.

This is the only book-length biography of Dake, published by his family’s company. Chapters 2 and 3 draw on it for his life. Chapter 24 answers its Appendices Nine to Eleven (pp. 393–406), which defend Dake’s doctrine of God. Those appendices also report a 1954 broadcast of Dake’s on WGST radio, and they set Dake’s words beside the Moody Handbook of Theology and Easton’s Bible Dictionary. Chapter 24 cites three works through Bible’s use of them:

Enns, Paul P. Moody Handbook of Theology. Chicago: Moody Press, 1989. As cited by Leon Bible.

Erickson, Millard J. Christian Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983. As quoted by Leon Bible.

Thiessen, Henry C. Lectures in Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949. As quoted by Leon Bible.

Spencer, Jeff, and Steve Bright. “Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine.” Christian Research Journal 27, no. 5 (2004).

This article is footnoted to primary sources, including page citations of God’s Plan for Man and the Study Bible. Chapter 23 uses it for the facts it reports and the sources it cites, and labels its judgments as the authors’ own. It reports correspondence with Larry Ollison, then midwest regional director for the International Convention of Faith Ministries (July 25, 1997), and with David G. Roebuck, director of the Pentecostal Research Center at Lee University (July 23, 1997). Five other sources are known to me only through this article:

Burgess, Stanley M., and Gary B. McGee, eds. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Regency Reference Library, 1988. S.v. “Dake, Finis Jennings.” As quoted in Spencer and Bright; its assessments are paraphrased in Chapter 23, not quoted.

Germaine, Keel. “Dake Bible Fills Niche.” CBA Marketplace, January 1997, 12. As cited in Spencer and Bright.

Love, Richard, and Jennifer Bryon Owen. “The Pentecostal Study Bible.” Charisma and Christian Life, January 1988, 39. As cited in Spencer and Bright.

Swaggart, Jimmy. “In Memory: Finis Jennings Dake 1902–1987.” The Evangelist, September 1987, 44. As reproduced in Spencer and Bright.

“Scholars Scrutinize Popular Dake Bible.” Christianity Today, 1994.

This is a news report. Chapter 23 uses it for the facts it reports and attributes, and labels its judgments as the magazine’s.

Horton, Michael. The Agony of Deceit. Chicago: Moody Press, 1990.

Chapter 23 gives a statement of Jimmy Swaggart’s on the Godhead as Horton quotes it, and a remark of Horton’s as Christianity Today quotes it.

Hanegraaff, Hank. Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009.

“He’s Still Not Afraid to Confront.” Charisma, online, July 31, 2000.

This article about Fred Price reports the publisher’s letter of apology to him and the publisher’s claim that a 1997 edition of the Bible was rewritten to remove any racial overtones. It gives no date for the letter. Chapters 22 and 23 and Appendix C quote it.

Other works cited

These works support points of history and theology in single chapters.

Athanasius. De Decretis (On the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea), sec. 20. Paraphrased in Chapter 5.

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Translated by Henry Beveridge. 1845. Cited at 1.13.1 in Chapter 4.

Chalmers, Thomas. Lectures of 1814. Pember, G. H. Earth’s Earliest Ages. 1876. Scofield Reference Bible. 1909, note on Genesis 1:2. All three are named in Chapter 15 as earlier holders of the gap reading of Genesis 1, and none is quoted.

Josephus. Jewish War 5.193–194; Antiquities 15.417. Cited in Chapter 21 for the warning on the temple barrier.

Robeck, Cecil M., Jr. The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement. 2006. Cited in Chapter 21 for the history of the Azusa Street mission.

The Openness of God. InterVarsity Press, 1994. Described in Chapter 10 as the book that set out open theism for a broad readership; it is not quoted.

Wesley, Charles. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (1739), second stanza, in the altered text of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Quoted in Chapter 13.

Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Joseph Smith, 1842), art. 1. Cited in Chapter 5.

A few chapters also describe a teacher or a movement without quoting a particular work: the teaching of the Watchtower Society on the Son (Chapter 5), and the positions of Augustine, Boethius, Arminius and John Wesley (Chapters 10 and 11). Those chapters say so in their notes.

The creeds and confessions

The creeds are the church’s summary of what Scripture teaches, and Scripture stands over them. They are quoted where their exact wording settles a question, and they are cited by name and article. All are in the public domain.

The Apostles’ Creed, in the traditional English text.

The Nicene Creed of 325, and the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. The text of 381, without the words “and the Son” added later in the West, is quoted from Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, eds., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 14, The Seven Ecumenical Councils, “The Holy Creed Which the 150 Holy Fathers Set Forth.” Chapter 13 quotes the same creed from Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 1, and other chapters use the traditional English text.

The Athanasian Creed (Quicunque Vult), in the traditional English text of the Book of Common Prayer (1662). Article numbers follow Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877), 66–67. Chapter 7 prints it.

The Definition of Chalcedon (451), in the English of Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 2. The Third Council of Constantinople (681) is cited in Chapter 13.

The Thirty-Nine Articles (1571), art. I.

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), 2.1 and 2.2, and the Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Q. 4, which says God is “infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.”

The Savoy Declaration (1658) and the Second London Baptist Confession (1689), cited in Chapter 4 for the clause they share with Westminster 2.1. The Remonstrant articles of 1610 are summarized in Chapter 11, not quoted.

General Council of the Assemblies of God. Statement of Fundamental Truths, art. 2, “The One True God.” Cited in Chapters 6, 7, 11, 14 and 25 from the statement as the General Council publishes it.

The Bible translations

Unless a note says otherwise, Scripture is quoted from the New King James Version. The English Standard Version is used in a few places where it is clearer, and the note says so. Dake’s own notes quote the King James Version, and his Scripture is reproduced exactly as he printed it. Chapters 4, 12 and 15 also quote the King James Version on its own where the argument turns on its wording, and the note says so. Hebrew and Greek words are given in English first, then transliterated, and the spellings stay the same across the book (echad, ousia, hypostasis, homoousios, min, hayah). Inside Dake’s quotations his own spelling stays, as in achad.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

For further study

These five books are suggested for a reader who wants to go further. None of them is quoted in this book, and none is linked.⁷

For a study Bible written from inside the Pentecostal tradition, look at the Fire Bible. It was first published as the Full Life Study Bible, under general editor Donald C. Stamps, an Assemblies of God missionary. For the Trinity, Michael Reeves’s short book Delighting in the Trinity presents the doctrine as good news for the believer. For the attributes of God, Matthew Barrett’s None Greater covers the perfections this book defends: God’s presence everywhere, His knowledge, His power and His changelessness. J. I. Packer’s Knowing God covers similar ground in a devotional way. For reading the Bible well, Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart wrote How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. Fee was a Pentecostal New Testament scholar, and the book teaches readers to ask what kind of writing a passage is before they decide what it means.

I do not agree with every line of these books, and none of them should be read without the Bible open beside it. That is how I have asked you to read this book as well.

Check the citations

Every quotation in this book carries its source and page, so any reader with the same book can check it. If you own a Dake Bible, look up the pages for yourself, and compare your printing with Appendix C to see which stage of the race note it carries. Appendix B gives page 159 in full, Appendix A links every newspaper page, Appendix D gathers Dake’s definitions of his key words, and Appendix E sets his teaching beside the creeds. If a page does not say what I say it says, please tell me, and I will correct it. The Bereans in Acts 17 checked even Paul’s teaching against the Scriptures:

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Acts 17:11 (NKJV)

Dake asked his own readers to test every doctrine by plain Scripture. I ask the same of you, for his pages and for mine. Chapter 25 says what to do with the Bible in your hands.