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those who attend the various daytime and evening ‘School of the Word’ events and are working towards non-accredited awards. Group discussion and individual interviews will offer insights pertinent to this thesis. In order to investigate as many avenues of thought on this subject as possible, it will be necessary to consult some academic and popular journals. With this in mind, pertinent websites will further the goals of this thesis. The establishing of the various positions in this debate will allow for analysis, through historical study, of the behaviour of the Church. This behaviour will be seen in its attitude toward the societal needs that have surrounded it through the ages when exposed to dispensational style thinking or any of its related forerunners. In so doing the effect, both negative and positive, will become clear. By summarizing all of the issues covered in the preceding chapters, it will be possible to draw conclusions. The conclusions drawn from this research will enable one to make clear and informed decisions concerning the doctrinal issues raised by Premillennial Dispensationalism and the subsequent attitudes concerning societal responsibility which face the Church in South Africa. 8 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com
CHAPTER TWO Dispensational Premillennialism – An examination of terminology, historical development and primary characters. 1. Dispensational terminology Before identifying the genesis and tracing the development of Premillennial Dispensationalism, it is necessary to become acquainted with the terminology surrounding this doctrine to clearly understand the issues at stake. Although the terms Premillennial and Dispensational are used together throughout this chapter they are not synonymous. Furthermore, Historical Premillennialism and Dispensational Premillennialism are different positions. Most if not all dispensationalists are premillennial, but not all premillenialists are dispensational. Premillennialism was dominant until the rise of Augustine of Hippo. It then all but disappeared for about a thousand years. Premillennialism states that Jesus Christ will return before that literal one thousand-year period called the ‘Millennium’. This position was the dominant belief in the Church of the first four centuries after Christ (Mathison: 4). Dispensationalism, on the other hand, is a system of theology that encompasses far more than just one particular view of the Millennium. Therefore, it is vital to not equate Premillennialism with Dispensationalism (Riddlebarger: 24). Having said that, there are those dispensationalists who hold to a premillennial Second Advent and, in so doing combine the two views as Premillennial Dispensationalism. From the dispensationalist perspective, their position is Premillennialism in “the purity of its expression” (Gerstner: 70). Dispensationalist leading lights such as Scofield, Darby, Chafer, Walvoord and Ryrie held such a position. Dispensationalism’s association with Premillennialism lends it an aura of historicity as the latter has been in the Church more or less from the very beginning (Gerstner: 78). 9 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com
Page 1 and 2: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PREMILLENNIA
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Chapter One Introduction 1
Page 5 and 6: 4.4.4 The second decree of Artaxere
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Page 23 and 24: While one would expect nothing less
Page 25 and 26: interpreting the New Testament with
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Page 29 and 30: Even the Futurists - those who subs
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therefore constitutes ten Jubilee e
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The implication of all such argumen
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CHAPTER FOUR An analysis of the neg
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epresent a “serious distortion of
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1.3.1 The cyclical view of history.
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‘separation theology’ which occ
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The rise of Zionism For centuries,
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He suggested two options: A cessati
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The Third International Christian Z
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of Israel, then one is an enemy of
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should not deflect the Church from
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espondents believed in the secret R
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In 1913, a year before the outbreak
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Even so, there was great social, po
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Edson's experience is a dramatic bu
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true blessedness will prevail, the
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In what appears to be a strange par
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manifesting Biblical solutions to o
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The simplicity that made it less th
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Dispensationalists alliance with Zi
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just to bandage the victims under t
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engaged in the necessary attack upo
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in the rise and rule of the Antichr
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has to be said however that most su
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In the light of such statistics, we
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The Church that is unshackled from
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Racism has cut deep into the heart
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Development Ministry - Building up
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upon Africa as a whole. When the Ch
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eason that it has assumed a positio
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comprised thirty-one individuals. E
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Archer, Gleason L. Jer
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Sizer, Stephen. Christian Zionism -
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SECTION B Respond to each question
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