I had intended to move on to other topics after publishing a pair of articles on dispensationalism and covenantalism. But I’ve received a fair amount of feedback from those articles, which revealed that not everyone has the same idea of what constitutes dispensationalism. So I decided to write another article outlining some basic features just … Continue reading What is Dispensationalism? A Brief Introduction
Tag: Interpretation
My Concerns with Dispensationalism
In the previous article in this column I covered a few of my concerns with Covenant Theology. That included an overview of each view and the differences, which I will not rehash at length here. In short, both covenantalism and dispensationalism are meta-systems (whole-Bible theologies) for understanding the overarching storyline of the Bible. Proponents of … Continue reading My Concerns with Dispensationalism
My Concerns with Covenant Theology
Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology[1] are two theological systems which govern how we interpret the overall storyline of Scripture. Each seeks to describe how God’s redemptive purposes unfold through history. These are “whole-Bible theologies,”[2] ways of understanding God’s redemptive purposes throughout Scripture. Anyone who has seriously studied the Bible belongs somewhere in one of these camps, … Continue reading My Concerns with Covenant Theology