Author: Bateman, Herbert W.
Genre: Theology - Dispensationalism
Tags: Dispensationalism
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Rick Shrader‘s Review:
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 topics are 1) Hermeneutics, 2) the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New covenants, and 3) Israel and the Church. Bateman is a Dallas Seminary graduate and the writers are all Dallas men and professors. All men are premillennial and pretribulational, but differ on the newer view (especially for Dallas Seminary) of progressive dispensationalism. Darrell Bock, along with Craig Blaising (also a professor at DTS) is one of the leading writers on the progressive view. The topics of familiar discussion are complementary hermeneutics, the already-not yet kingdom, inaugurated or instituted covenants, New Testament priority, and the place of David’s throne.