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To: Biblical Calvinist; drstevej
I don't know that a website entitled "preterist archive" is a good source for an analysis of dispensationalism. Similarly, Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth seems way too biased.

"Old Line" Dispensationalism is no longer being taught in any of the major conservative Seminaries; even those seminaries, like Dallas Theological Seminary; which was founded "foursquare" on the Scofield Bible, is no longer teaching "Old Line" Dispensationalism; and has not taught it for some years now.

Is that true? I know Dallas is getting a rep amongst the more doctrinaire of the Brethren as "wishy-washy" on dispensationalism because of Bock and Blasing, and that Swindall wanted to move Dallas away from being "too dispensational," but I wasn't under the impression that Dallas itself has shifted entirely.

(BC: I grew up with a Scofield Bible, and my church taught me Classical Dispensationalism. I've largely shifted away from that position. I don't affirm as sharp a distinction between the church and Israel as the classical dispensationalist does, though I do affirm that there are fundamental differences between the Old Covenant and New Covenant dispensations.)

Gotta run to help with one of those eeeeeevil parachurch ministries on campus... ;-)

64 posted on 01/29/2004 3:27:32 PM PST by jude24 (Would You like to Know God Personally? - http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tjminter/4laws/4laws.ppt)
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To: jude24
***Similarly, Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth seems way too biased.***

Agreed. It wasn't one of Gerstner's better books.

Interestingly, the best defense of the distinction between Israel and the Church was done as a Master of Theology thesis at Westminster Seminary by Robert C. Walton.

DTS' doctrinal statement still reads...

Article XIII—THE CHURCH, A UNITY OF BELIEVERS

We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are members of the church which is the body and bride of Christ, which began at Pentecost and is completely distinct from Israel.

http://www.dts.edu/aboutdts/fulldoctrinalstatement.aspx

BTW, Craig Blaising (a seminary classmate and buddt) is now at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Cow Town.
72 posted on 01/29/2004 4:43:40 PM PST by drstevej
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