Progressive Dispensationalism

[David Taylor]

Does anyone know anything about Progressive Dispensationalism and its efforts to converge with Covenantal Theology?

 

[RamistThomist]

Does anyone know anything about Progressive Dispensationalism and its efforts to converge with Covenantal Theology?

I commend their efforts. Some of them are outstanding scholars and leaders in their field. Darrell Bock, for example.

They abandon a lot of the silliness that characterized earlier dispensational models. Often, they sound just like covenant theologians when it come to already-not yet.

I still think some of their points are underdeveloped, but I am encouraged on the whole. The following are the standard works.

This is the place to start.
https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-...?keywords=blaising+bock&qid=1581991345&sr=8-1

This is a bit more technical, but the essays are top notch and it has some Reformed responses.
https://www.amazon.com/Dispensation...?keywords=blaising+bock&qid=1581991345&sr=8-3

 

[arapahoepark]

Does anyone know anything about Progressive Dispensationalism and its efforts to converge with Covenantal Theology?

Having coming out of dispensationalism, like many here, I know a bit about it. However, its superficial appearance of a "convergence" with covenant theology is overstated.

 

[wcf_linux]

Can't go wrong with Robert Saucy's The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism. His lectures at Biola gave me a clear enough of an understanding of Progressive Dispensationalism, and of its relationship with other forms of Dispensationalism, as to enable me to gradually reason myself away from it.

 

[GulfCoast Presbyterian]

These are the "one-people-of-God" dispensationalists?

 

[RamistThomist]

These are the "one-people-of-God" dispensationalists?

Yes. They reject the old Scofieldian views. One way of salvation, one people of God.

 

[Stephen L Smith]

These are the "one-people-of-God" dispensationalists?

Yes. They reject the old Scofieldian views. One way of salvation, one people of God.

It gets a bit tricky here because the John MacArthur dispensationists also hold to one people of God with respect to salvation - they have a Calvinistic framework. Those who are influenced by MacArthur tend to hold a problematic tension in their theology, I believe. In their view God has one plan of salvation, one elect people of God, but he still has different purposes for Israel and the Church.

 

[RamistThomist]

It gets a bit tricky here because the John MacArthur dispensationists also hold to one people of God with respect to salvation - they have a Calvinistic framework. Those who are influenced by MacArthur tend to hold a problematic tension in their theology, I believe. In their view God has one plan of salvation, one elect people of God, but he still has different purposes for Israel and the Church.

That's about right. They would say--and this is correct at one level--that our unity in Christ doesn't erase distinctions. Male and female are one in Christ, but they still have male and female characteristics. They aren't hermaphrodites.