Deuteronomy

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Subject: Harmonizing the Word Hermeneutically

Bible Note: Dear Ed,

I recall one of my seminary professors who said, "Never contend with a doctrine until you are able to fully articulate it to its proponents. Anything else is dishonoring to the character of our Lord. A straw man argument is fundamentally dishonest."

You criticized Romanist approaches, but even they have their beliefs fully documented. I have a rather large book in my library that is their most recent and most exhaustive confession. (It is just as large as the other systematic theologies that sit beside them.)

You see, I can render up to you any number of texts on hermeneutics, soteriology, Christology, covenantalism, eschatology, ecclesiology, anthropology, ontology, pneumatology, ethics, epistemology, theology proper, etc. etc.

I can even render up a very clear definition of what I believe to be essential doctrines. Even my profile here gives a pretty good summation.

Please understand me, I am not abjuring your beliefs. At Covenant Theological Seminary (a very Reformed school indeed), Dispensationalism was discussed a number times. However, I think that the surface was hardly scratched. Nothing much else than what Theopedia says, was ever presented.

http://www.theopedia.com/dispensationalism

Would you read through that page and tell me what I think? Do you agree with the definition there?

Also, sorry for continuing to press the point; but if you used no textbook for your seminarians, allowing them to learn by implication; did you have a textbook from which you learned Dispensationalism?

If not, may I press you to do a google search on "dispensationalism textbook" and point me in the right direction? I read A. W. Pink's book, but it was clear that the Dispensationalism in his time was very different from what it is in ours -- if it can be pinned down at all. I intend to read Vern Poythress' book on the topic. Before I do, though, it would be helpful if I read something definitive -- by which I mean something that won't require my reading everything those dozen or so Dispensational theologians wrote. Someone must have taken up the challenge to define it. Peter Abelard (a theologian of the 12th century) asserted that if you cannot explain something then you do not understand it.

Finally, if I can even press you further: What are the differences between Dispensationalism, Progressive Dispensationalism, and Hyper Dispensationalism?

Again, thank you for your help, Ed.

In Him, Doc

PS We can talk about Historic Creedalism, Hermeneutics, and the distinctions between Antiochian and Alexandrian schools of thought in another thread. I'd enjoy doing so; but let's try to stay focused on Dispensationalism for now.