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Title: Dispensationalism by Charles Caldwell Ryrie ISBN: 0-8024-2187-3 Publisher: Moody Publishers Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Defence of the Dispensational Approach
Comment: As a traditional dispensationalist of the Ryrie persuasion I want to recommend this book for anyone interested in how to approach the Holy Scriptures. Ryrie does a masterful job in defending his position and critiquing the postion of progressive dispensationalists, covenant theologians and hyper dispensationalists. The best part of the book is his correction of assumed dispensational thought by non-dispensationalists. This book is a must read for dispensationalists and non-dispensationalists. Read this book in conjunction with "There Really is a Difference" by Renald E. Showers and "Continuity and Discontinuity" edited by John S. Feinberg.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good overview of Dispensationalism
Comment: Charles Ryrie gives an able defense of classical dispensationalism. He begins with an overview of the idea of dispensations and provides a new and revised definition of the term as well as Biblical justification for the use of the word. Dispensationalism is a help, not a heresy, as its opponents have often uncharitably characterized it. Ryrie goes on to outline and defend the dispensationalist view on the following topics:
the logic of seven dispensations
the need for a literal hermeneutic
the plan of salvation under the Law and under Grace
the distinction between Israel and the Church
pretribulational, premillennial eschatology
Other chapters include an account of dispensationalism's origins and a defense against the charges of recency and divisiveness. Ryrie also provides three chapters dealing with dispensationalism's opponents: 1) progressive dispensationalism, which bears a remarkable resemblance to Laddian historic premillennialism, 2) covenant theology, and 3) ultradispensationalism.
Rating: 3
Summary: Solid presentation of a problematic system
Comment: There are two measures by which this book can be evaluated. First, how good is this book at explaining its subject matter -- Dispensationalism? Second, how convincing are the arguments? On the first point, this book is mostly without competition. It covers the significant elements of dispensationalism (salvation, hermeneutics, Church vs. Israel, eschatology/end times) without a great deal of theological jargon. He also has some nice material on the systems of ultradispensationalism and progressive dispensationalism. As mentioned elsewhere, his tone is irenic and not polemical. He could be clearer on the relationship between the way of salvation and the idea of a dispensation. I found his arguments convoluted and even circular at times. On the first score, it gets 4 stars.
On the second, though, his arguments seem weak at times. Apart from the clarity problem I mentioned already, it's worth nothing that he mostly argues with a "stereotypical" covenant theologian. But, like stereotypical dispensationalists, I'm not sure any really exist. He never addresses the positions held by Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians. (Although, since neither holds to a strictly literal interpretation, Ryrie probably lumps them in with "liberals".) Finally, his treatment of oikonomia (economy; "dispensation") in the chapter "What is a Dispensation?" plays very fast and loose with its exegesis. He makes oikonomia mean "dispensation" (in the Dispensationalist sense of the word) everywhere, and it doesn't work. A careful reading of Irenaeus would provide a lot of interesting material on what God's "economy" really is. On the second score, 2 stars. Overall, I'd give it 3.
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Title: There Really Is a Difference!: A Comparison of Covenant and Dispensational Theology by Renald E. Showers ISBN: 0915540509 Publisher: The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Things to Come by J. Dwight Pentecost ISBN: 0310308909 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 August, 1965 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Progressive Dispensationalism by Craig A. Blaising, Darrell L. Bock ISBN: 0801022436 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Three Central Issues in Contemporary Dispensationalism: A Comparison of Traditional and Progressive Views by Herbert W. Bateman ISBN: 0825420628 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth by Charles Caldwell Ryrie ISBN: 0802427340 Publisher: Moody Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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