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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,...

Three WHAT ARE THE DISPENSATIONS? THE NUMBER OF DISPENSATIONS The Importance of the Question In the previous chapter we have seen that covenant theologians (such as Hodge and Berkhof) list four and five dispensations in their concept of the outworking of the covenant of grace. This points to the fact that recognizing dispensations does not automatically make a person a dispensationalist. The essence of dispensationalism is (1) the recognition of a consistent distinction between Israel and the church,
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