John White

John White (1924–2002) was an evangelical Christian author and international speaker who worked with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students of Latin America and published many books through InterVarsity Press.

White moved to Canada in 1965 and completed his residency in psychiatry in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He then served as associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and also as pastor of Church of the Way.

White helped to start the Surrey Vineyard of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also involved with the national Association of Vineyard Churches.

Life John White was born on March 5, 1924, in Liverpool, England. He grew up in Manchester.

Christian academic work White taught courses at Regent College.

Books

Eros Defiled One of White's earlier popular books is Eros Defiled which tackles the topic of Christians and sexual sin. White would later come to regret this book and its continuance in print because he no longer held that psychiatry was the answer to freedom from sexual sin. Instead, he recommended his later book entitled Eros Redeemed.

In the section on homosexuality in Eros Defiled John White describes how, as a junior high school student, he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a Christian youth worker.

Quotations These quotations represent significant aspects of Dr. White's thought, with an emphasis on what might be considered the less orthodox and more exploratory areas. "[The Archives] stirred the most deeply in people. And I have a feeling that the stories in the historical records in scripture are far more important than the doctrines and prophetic utterances based on them. That we read to read the stories first. We need to focus on the stories because I’ve learned from my own experience that the stories are more powerful."