John gerstner on dispensationalism before darby
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John gerstner on dispensationalism before darby
John Gerstner’s Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of Dispensationalism (Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991) is the latest of a number of books in recent years claiming to be the ultimate refutation of dispensationalism.
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The design of the book:
The subtitle states the purpose of the book. As one reviewer notes, the word “critique” “is putting it mildly—the book is more like a butchering” (The Baptist Bulletin, March 1992, p.
38).
The jacket of the book informs the reader that this is “the most extensive and systematic study of Dispensational theology ever published.” J. I. Packer opines that dispensationalism is “seriously astray.”
How does Gerstner view dispensationalism?
He describes it as not true premillennialism (p. 68) and identifies it as Arminianism (p.
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107), Gnosticism (p. 208), pantheism (p. 136, 143), Pelagianism (p, 243), and, preeminently, as antinomianism. More seriously, dispensationalism is “