Reformed Dispensationalist?

[prism]

An interesting read (especially the comments).

A reformed dispensationalist?

No two words have seemingly been more contradictory within evangelicalism than “reformed” and “dispensational”. Most recently, Dr. R.C. Sproul revised his book Grace Unknown…

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Mutually Exclusive or no?
I find I have a similar struggle.

 

[Josheb]

Ooooooooooooo......... (josh drools)

So much to say but, unblessedly, I must keep this brief because I have to go. First let me say the article to which the op links was written in 2006, so it's a little antiquated. That aside, and having read a lot of Dispensationalist theology in the words of leading Dispensationalists themselves, I will attest to the vein of Reformed theology running through Dispensationalist thought in SOME doctrines. Dispensationalist soteriology is often Reformed, for example. Many Dispensationalists are firmly Calvinist and the Arminians are often Reformed Arminians and not Wesleyan, Traditionalist, or Pelagian. Capital "T" Theology (the nature of God? Very little disagreement.

However, Dispensational theology does not consider Theology and soteriology preeminent. Dispensationalism deliberately (and openly) elevates ecclesiology and eschatology as primary doctrines. In this Dispensationalism is not Reformed. There has been an in-house effort among some Dispensationalists to integrate and/or return to Reformed theology in the Dispensationalist ecclesiology and Dispensational Premillennial eschatology. That is what Progressive Dispensationalism seeks to do. Originators of this view like Blasing, Bock, and Saucy were resisted when they got started but I've read contemporary Dispensationalists like Vlach and Ice reference them in positive ways. One chief area of current debate is that of "continuity." Feinberg's book is still considered the classic but a host of books on the subject have cropped up in the last five+ years (most of the Dispensationalists defending Dispensationalism).

Gotta go