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Progressive Dispensationalism Paperback – September 1, 2000

by Craig A. Blaising (Author), Darrell L. Bock (Author)

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Craig A. Blaising (Th.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is the Associate Vice President for Doctoral Studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Darrell L. Bock (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is executive director for cultural engagement at the Hendricks Center at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, where he also serves as senior research professor of New Testament studies. He is the author or editor of many books, including Jesus the God-Man, Jesus according to Scripture, Studying the Historical Jesus, and major commentaries on Luke and Acts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baker Academic (September 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801022436
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801022432
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches

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Craig Blaising is executive vice president and provost at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds two doctorate degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary and the University of Aberdeen. In addition to teaching, Craig Blaising has written several volumes on the topic of the end times.
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MechPebbles

Something All Diligent Lay Christians Must Read

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2006

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I am not a Christian with fanciful theological degrees from one of the acclaimed seminaries. No, I'm strictly a lay believer who loves the Lord and strives to understand His ways and His will. Before coming to this book, I had studied the Bible with more than 30 commentaries and thought I knew something about God's Word. Boy, was I self-deceived.

You see, I had never ventured into the area of Biblical Theology (as opposed to Systematic Theology). I had always considered divine covenants to be nothing more than an historical footnote in the history of Israel, with little relevance for today's believer. Thanks to this book I now understand how covenants are probably the most important theme in Holy Scripture.

No, you don't need to be a dispensationalist to learn from this book (I'm not one). And don't be fooled by people who harbor strong suscipions about dispensational theology. There's nothing heretic about it's latest iteration, Progressive Dispensationalism. In fact, this book has only a relatively minor chapter on dispensations. Most of the book focuses on two important biblical themes: the covenants and the Kingdom of God.

One warning though: If you are a non-scholar like me, you'll probably find this book boring. But push your way through the pages and by the time you get to see how one covenant links to the next before finally arriving at the New Covenant, you will see the glorious redemptive plan of God. And when you get to the final chapter of the book, your soul will be overflowing with praise for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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How to interpret accurately.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013

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This is still one of the key concepts that Christian leaders need to deal with. The view on the street is that the topic is controversial. Yet, it is something the most simple believer deals with every time they try to determine why on earth God would have said what he did in the Bible.

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Benjamin Morrison

very helpful and adds balance

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2014

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really enjoyed this book! it was very well laid out and helped to explain the progression in dispensational thought since its advent. personally, it was helpful for me to see the connectedness of the various covenants as being progressive historical revelations of God's redemptive plan. despite the accusation by some classic/revised dispensationalists, this book did not present a covenant theology view. the only thing i would like to have seen is more treatment on the specific role of israel in light of the current dispensational epoch. overall, a great read!

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Moderately Difficult Reading - Great Topic!

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2013

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After attempting to read Saucy's "The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism", I found Blaising and Bock much easier reading. It is still moderately difficult and moderately dry, but a much better book. Blaising and Bock did a great job of starting at the ground floor, not requiring readers to employ seminary terminology. They did an especially good job of laying out the history of Dispensational Theology from Darby, Scofield and Moody to Ryrie, Walvoord, and the era of Adrian Rogers.

If you have the stomach for serious theology, you might appreciate Progressive Dispensationalism which posits the church in the midst of God's current kingdom without undermining the clear prophecies of Israel's special future as a specially prophesied end-time kingdom. I agree with such theology.

One must forgive the writers for a small amount of bias, especially in their loose use in chapter four of the word oikonomia as "dispensation" when they find it convenient, yet translating the same word as stewardship or management as convenience better suits them too. In similar fashion, they apparently say on page 126 that the current dispensation is called a down payment toward the end-time kingdom in Eph 1:13 which passage says nothing of the sort. As with any good book, we separate the useful teaching from those things which have been stretched a bit too far with good intent.

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Charles Merritt Whittenton III

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Great read. Enjoyed the book

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Ryan Horkavy

Scholarly yet easy to read...

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2012

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This book is a wonderful addition to the library of anyone interested in the subset of Progressive Dispensationalism. It should be read in conjunction with Ryrie's revised edition of Dispensationalism and Saucey's book on the subject.

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D. Draper

excellent stuff

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2006

for quite a while i was torn between dispensationalism and covenant theology.. while i was convinced God still had a purpose for national Israel & the Kingdom hadn't as yet been fully inaugurated i couldn't square classic & revised dispensationalism's theology up to scripture - too many dichotomies and salvation plans for my liking.. i was much more impressed by the covenental theologians' holistic salvation plan but not so keen on the supercessionism that invariably seemed to be entailed by it.. this book finds the middle road between the two (to which blaising & bock admit is the case) and take the best aspects of both viewpoints.. im convinced this will challenge both reformed & dispensational thinkers to review some of their notions of God's ultimate plan of salvation.. big thumbs up..

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Progressive Dispensationalism

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2007

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This is a really good book. Very thorough and well written. I recommend it for academic reading. It is not casual reading.

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Paul Morris

Very helpful for the serious outsider

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I do not hold a Dispensational theology but I read this book to get a better understanding of it and it certainly fulfilled my hopes. The overview of both the history and the developments in Dispensationalism were detailed and immensely valuable to one not brought up in that tradition. The arguments for this further development, under the name Progressive Dispensationalism, were very thoroughly presented, especially in part 3 of the book, which focuses on the structure of the Biblical covenants and the Kingdom of God in both testaments. It was in that part of the book that the idea of progression was most clearly presented and it was encouraging to realise that many of the arguments were in greater harmony with covenant theology. I read a comment recently in a theological volume to the effect that these theologies were drawing closer and I imagine the writer had their perspectives on the covenants and the kingdom in mind. As one who holds to a covenant theology I can hope for more oneness of mind in other areas in the days to come.

The section on hermeneutics by Darrell Bock would make a good slim volume on its own and was a very helpful overview of general principles and the particular applications to which he adheres. Most of his exploration of the application to events came from apocalyptic texts such as Daniel and Revelation. What surprised and disappointed me about this section was his failure to offer principles for interpreting the predictive sections of the Prophets. To spend about seven pages on apocalyptic literature and half a page on prophetic seemed imbalanced. He stressed, quite rightly, that the prophets main concern is rebuke and exhortation to bring God’s people into righteous living, but to make no mention of how to approach their predictions seemed a serious oversight. Hints of that do come later in the book in places where Craig Blaising uses such texts, e.g, page 165, but none of those help the reader to a better understanding of the Dispensational principle of ‘delayed fulfillment’. I would have valued that as it is crucial to the whole system, especially the Dispensational teaching that such texts are not being fulfilled today.

This book is aimed at fellow-dispensationalists, not at people like myself who differ, so it would be unfair of me to criticise it for not addressing directly the areas of disagreement with covenant theology. However, reference is made from time to time to those disagreements which reveals the ares that remain a stumbling block to getting closer. For example, I looked hard for a progression in Dispensationalism’s view of the experience of God’s people before Messiah came but the term regeneration did not appear but only terms like a conditioned heart. It seems that the indwelling of the Spirit and regeneration are still viewed as synonymous and only for NT saints. To expect Christians to believe that the spiritual experiences expressed in the Psalms, things which they closely identify with, came from hearts which were not subject to God’s Law nor indeed could be (Romans 8:7) is asking a lot. Circumcision of the heart is an OT term for regeneration and must surely be seen as an OT reality for some in Israel. I had hoped there might be a move from the assertion that the present Church era is nowhere mentioned in the OT, but perhaps that was hoping for too much. Paul’s use of ‘as’ rather than ‘but’ in Ephesians 3:5 makes clear that the earlier ages did know something about the Gentiles becoming fellow-heirs with believing Israel, as in today’s Church. I thought that Blaising’s key recognition that the Messianic kingdom has been inaugurated, so not reserved entirely for the future, might lead to a recognition that this must have been anticipated by the Prophets (does not Amos (3:7) say God always shows to his prophets his secrets so that we know something of what he will do?) I was disappointed as he only used NT texts to show the kingdom was already inaugurated.

Other aspect that jarred I will list briefly. There is much reference to Jesus as king, presumably because of the focus on the millennial rule as the terminus of Dispensational thinking of the kingdom (short of the eternal state), but little mention of him as Saviour. ‘Church’ seems to be a term Dispensationalists dislike; it certainly does not appear often. The acknowledgement that only John among the apostles had the millennial reign on earth for 1,000 years clearly revealed to him seemed astonishing. Can it be seriously believed that such a major aspect of the kingdom was unknown to apostolic authors like Paul and Peter and Jude?

I valued this book for the reasons given at the start of these comments. A great deal of hard work has gone into it. I hope the strong areas of difference with covenant theology can yet me bridged.

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