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Since its publication, the New Dictionary of Theology has rapidly established itself as a standard, authoritative reference work in systematic and historical theology. More than 630 articles cover a variety of theological themes, thinkers and movements: • from creation to the millennium • from Abelard to Zwingli • from Third World liberation theology to South African Dutch Reformed...

Bible (1909, by the American Congregationalist, Cyrus I. Scofield, 1843–1921). The basic hermeneutical principle is literal interpretation, which does not rule out symbols, figures of speech and typology, but does insist that, throughout, ‘the reality of the literal meaning of the terms involved’ is determinative (Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, p. 87). Consequently, the promises of an earthly kingdom given to Israel as a nation must be fulfilled literally in a future, millennial kingdom (on the
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