Deciphering Covenant Theology (Part 13)
Read the series. This and the next installment use material from my article “The Eschatology of Covenant Theology,” originally published in the Journal of Dispensational Theology, 10:30 (Sep 2006).
Are young earth creationism and dispensationalist eschatology to blame for our conspiracy theory problem?
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“Caught between the (semi) proverbial rock of Ham and the hard place of LaHaye, many Christians–especially American fundamentalists and evangelicals–have been progressively conditioned to resort to conspiracy as an explanatory heuristic” - Conciliar Post
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Review: Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture
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Covenant Theology by Michael Horton, Progressive Covenantalism by Stephen Wellum, Progressive Dispensationalism by Darrell Bock, Traditional Dispensationalism by Mark Snoeberger - P&D
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Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture
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“I just read this debate-book, and it’s as good as I had hoped. I plan to require it in my systematic theology course on the church and the end times.” - Andy Naselli
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“Dispensationalists hold to the originalist approach to hermeneutics.”
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“Dispensationalists … believe (1) that meaning is contained in words, (2) that words can have a broad semantic range, (3) that that range is limited in any instantiated use of those words by historical context, and (4) that the original intention of the author is both fixed and impervious to evolution.” - Snoeberger
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Tuesdays in Galilee: Faithful Life in the Old Covenant
I love the Book of Hebrews. It has the deepest Christology in the New Testament and in all of scripture. It also makes us think very deeply about the similarities and differences for the faithful believing life between the Old Covenant and the New. This very issue has come up repeatedly over the past few weeks within my own congregation, as we’ve worked our way through the heart of the “Jesus is the different, better High Priest” section which begins at Hebrews 7.
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Is dispensationalism to blame for patriotic idolatry?
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“…modern politics needs to be cloaked in religious language in order to carry the necessary gravitas. The end result is that theology becomes the handmaiden of political agendas. In turn, patriotism becomes one and the same with Christianity for so many.
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“Some dispensationalists...have suggested that love has replaced law in the Christian era”
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“While love as the fulfillment of the law does inform us that law-keeping alone is an inadequate measure of sanctification, that does not mean that law-keeping is optional to sanctification. We still must obey the laws (else why would the NT writers have been so painstaking in giving so many hundreds of them to us?)!” - Mark Snoeberger
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