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Dispensationalism continues to provoke heated debate within the Christian world. Highly acclaimed theologian Dr. Charles Ryrie addresses this crucial issue from the perspective of classic dispensationalism. He confronts the views of covenant theology, historical premillennialism, ultradispensationalism, and the increasingly popular progressive dispensationalism. In his bestselling book,...

manage, regulate, administer, and plan.10 The word itself is a compound whose parts mean literally “to divide, apportion, administer or manage the affairs of an inhabited house.” In the papyri the officer (pikonomos) who administered a dispensation was referred to as a steward or manager of an estate, or as a treasurer.11 Thus, the central idea in the word dispensation is that of managing or administering the affairs of a household. SCRIPTURAL USE OF THE WORD DISPENSATION The Usage of the Word The
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