Conservative Theological Journal

VOLUME 4

2000

APRIL, NUMBER 11

AUGUST, NUMBER 12

DECEMBER, NUMBER 13

Tyndale Theological Seminary

The Conservative Theological Journal is published three times per year by the Society of Dispensational Theology in cooperation with Tyndale Theological Seminary as a means for conservative evangelical scholarship from a traditional dispensational perspective. Tyndale Theological Seminary, its administration, or its faculty does not necessarily endorse all the interpretative views represented by each of the respective authors.

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Contents

Has The Church Replaced Israel In God’s Plan? A Historical and Theological Survey of Replacement Theology Michael J. Vlach

A Case For Systematic Theology Dr. Robert Lightner

Progressive Dispensationalism Dr. Robert Lightner

The Postmodern Theory of Probability on Evangelical Hermeneutics Paul R. Shockley

Inerrancy And The Gospels Mal Couch

Accredited-By Whom? Accredited By God Dr. Earnest Campbell

How To Master The English Bible S. Boutwell

A.H. Maslow And Self-Actualization A Critical Examination of Secular Theories and Theorists Joshua Didlake

Book Reviews

The Calvinistic Heritage of Dispensationalism Dr. Thomas Ice

Inerrancy & The Pauline Epistles Dr. Mal O. Couch

Has Bible Prophecy Already Been Fulfilled? (Part One: The Problem of Preterism) Dr. Thomas Ice

Calvinism: Five or Four Points? Dr. Mal O. Couch

The Unbiblical Nature of Catholic Dogma Dr. Mal O. Couch

The Fall of Evangelical Seminaries: A Lesson from the Past Dr. Mal O. Couch

Book Reviews

Inerrancy: The General Epistles Mal Couch

Babylon The Great City, The Harlot An Expository Study Ronald M. Johnson, Ph D

The Catholic View Of Justification By Faith Mal Couch

Book Reviews

April

Has The Church Replaced Israel In God’s Plan? A Historical and Theological Survey of Replacement Theology

Michael J. Vlach

Director of Center for Biblical Studies

Indian Hills Community Church, Lincoln, NE

Introduction To Replacement Theology

Many Christians throughout church history have held to a view concerning Israel and the church known as “replacement theology.”1 “Replacement theology,” as Thomas Ice explains, “is the view that the Church has permanently replaced Israel as the instrument through which God works and that national Israel does not have a future in the plan of God.”2 Replacement theology is based on two premises: (1) God has permanently rejected National Israel, and (2) the church has replaced or superceded Israel in God’s plan. The end result is that the church has become the inheritor of God’s covenant blessings originally given to Israel, and Israel will not be restored as a nation with a distinct identity and function. As replacement theologian Loraine ...