Where Is Dispensationalism Going? (Part 2)
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Is dispensationalism dead? Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of its demise have actually been greatly exaggerated.
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Read the series.
Is dispensationalism dead? Well, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of its demise have actually been greatly exaggerated.
“Welcome to the first Credo Colloquy, an exclusive dialogue between theologians…. In this new series leading theologians engage one another on some of the most important issues in theology facing the church.” - Credo
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Dispensationalism is definitely in decline. I have written two major articles1 probing the causes of that issue and—though I take no delight in that conclusion—it is certainly one that deserves our attention.
“For the [Satan Hypothesis] to work, Satan and his demons must freely alter the physical realm using their own intrinsic powers supplied at their creative inception. In other words, they must be able to ‘push’ physical things around, without requiring God’s direct authority and supernatural power.” - Ken Coulson
“Though we can only observe from our corner of the world, we see most clearly when we look for what God’s doing in the other corners.” - Collin Hansen
“…these streams don’t represent neo-Calvinism as it originated. In our forthcoming book and our podcast (Grace in Common) we seek to disambiguate and broaden the term by showing its theological roots.” - Cory Brock and N. Gray Sutanto
“Given these various definitions, some of which explicitly contradict any semblance of a unified definition, Christian Platonism is nearly impossible to define since its commitments have shifted over time. Yet there appears to be a core conceptual agreement of transcendence.” - London Lyceum
“These five convictions Carter contends are derived from the biblical data and form the metaphysical convictions that accompany his twenty-five theses of what he means by trinitarian classical theism—which he uses interchangeably with Christian Platonism.” - London Lyceum
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