Daniel Hummel’s 2023 book has caused quite a stir in the last year both within dispensationalism and anti-dispensationalism. The book is well written, typically documented, and controversial enough to hold the reader’s attention. I found the book entertaining at one point and totally frustrating at the next. Hummel’s basic points seem to be that dispensationalism, […]
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Book Genre: Theology - Dispensationalism
Evangelical Hermeneutics
R.L. Thomas wrote this interesting book in 2002 as Professor of New Testament at The Master’s Seminary. He is best known for his massive commentary on Revelation (in two volumes). This book was written as progressive dispensationalism was getting started (within the last 10 years) and Thomas responds primarily to its hermeneutical issues. Thomas would […]
Progressive Dispensationalism
Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock wrote this book in 1993 as a follow-up to their 1992 book, Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church. Blaising and Bock are the foremost spokesmen for the progressive dispensationalism point of view. This book reads as an encyclopedia of topics held by the progressive dispensationalists. Here is an advocate’s explanation of […]
Progressive Dispensationalism and the Mi...
Gerald Shugart has written books on Sir Robert Anderson, and is obviously a close following of the great British writer. This 2018 book was self-published, easy to read (139 pages), and is written from a very traditional dispensational point of view. Shugart criticizes complementary hermeneutics, already-not yet views on the kingdom, and points out that […]
Three Central Issues in Contemporary Dis...
This 1999 book, edited by Herbert Bateman and forwarded by Chuck Swindoll, was one of the earlier “views” books on traditional and progressive dispensationalism. The traditional views are argued by Elliott Johnson and Stanley Toussaint. The progressive views are argued by Darrell Bock and J. Lanier Burns. Bateman writes the Introduction and Conclusion. The tree […]
Maranatha-Our Lord, Come!
Renald Showers wrote this book in 1995, a book I read long ago but am just now adding it to my review list. Anything by Renald Showers is worth reading. In this book he includes a chapter on Pre-Wrath Rapture, which had only been made popular a few years before; a great section on the […]
Dispensationalism
Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952) was co-founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, serving as President until his death. He was the key that brought dispensationalism from its historical roots of Darby and Scofield to its traditional form described mostly by Dallas men such as Charles Ryrie, John Walvoord, J. Dwight Pentecost, and also Alva J. McClain, founder […]
Evangelical Hermeneutics and the NT use ...
Rynold Dean is a graduate of The Master’s Seminary and holds a traditional dispensational approach to hermeneutics. This volume is a continuation of his Master’s thesis and following years of additional writing. The book is endorsed by John MacArthur, R.L. Thomas, and Mike Stallard, with a forward by R. Kent Hughes. Dean tackles the controversial […]
Discovering Dispensationalism
This is a recent book (2013) edited by Cory Marsh and James Fazio. It is a good book on the history of dispensationalism that confirms that dispensationalism did not begin with John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) although Darby did organize and systematize it. This book begins with the church fathers and follows church history, in 13 […]
Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies...
This is another “Views” books which gives the reader four different views on a subject. This is also the second of such books I have reviewed this year. This volume covers the same topics as last month’s book but by different well-known authors. Covenant Theology, by Michael S. Horton, the J. Gresham Machen Professor of […]