We are living in an age when there is a profound clash of world views, the classic western worldview and the modern atheist/agnostic worldview. The latter can accept some aspects of eastern mysticism but not any concrete faith that provides …
Tikkun Means Restoration
Recently I read two books that prompted this article on the theology of Tikkun Global. The first was an amazing, definitive book by Jon Mark Ruthven, The Cessation of the Charismata and a short history of the World Evangelical Alliance …
Dispensational Fundamentalism Part II, #16
In our last essay, we noted the origins of the term “Fundamentalism” in the series on the Fundamentals published from 1909 onward and then connected to the Niagara Conferences. It was a scholarly and amazing series that included Orthodox Evangelicals …
Astronomy and Atheist Propaganda
The other evening, I was watching the news. There was an interview with an astronomer touting the amazing capability of the new telescope that was way more powerful than the famous Hubble telescope. We now see, due to the penetration …
Dispensational Fundamentalism Gains Dominance in American Evangelicalism, Essay 15
This essay is part one of two essays on Dispensational Fundamentalism. In the last half of the 19th century, critical approaches to the Bible began to make inroads into several of the mainline Protestant denominations. Their leaders did not deny …
The Differentiated Soul
As a Wheaton Philosophy major and then an Assistant to the Professor of Philosophy of Religion, I wrestled with what was called the mind-body problem. The atheists in philosophy and brain science were more and more saying that the mind …
Prophecy Conferences and Signs of the Times, Essay 14
For 150 years Signs of the Times Prophecy Conferences were popular in Dispensational circles. These conferences were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the best teachers were from Dallas Theological Seminary (J. Dwight Pentecost and others). The …
Backsliding and the Pre-Trib Rapture, Essay 13
As a youngster of 12 -and-a-half years old, I first heard the teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture from Dr. Charles J. Woodbridge, of dear memory. He was most impressed with an air of authority in his person. He presented the …
The New Covenant, Torah and Dispensationalism, Essay 12
Dispensationalism embraced a fundamentally wrong view of the Torah of Moses. Exodus-Deuteronomy was looked at as a dispensation of law that offered salvation based on keeping the Law or works righteousness. There were grace notes in the Torah that one …
The Gospel of the Kingdom, and Salvation by Allegiance Alone, Essay 11
Michael Bates has written a very important book entitled Salvation by Allegiance Alone. This is a presentation that is very counter to classical Dispensationalism. Bate’s thesis is simple. It is that the word range of the Greek word for faith …