Dispensationalism: Basic Distinctives of Dispensional Theology by Lewis Sperry Chafer and published by Classics.
Dispensationalism is Lewis Sperry Chafer's classic overview of the basic distinctives of dispensational theology, and provides an accessible introduction to dispensational ideas. While there is diversity among dispensational thinkers regarding a number of these distinctives, Chafer's seminal work models for theologians of all persuasions an acute attention to Biblical authority.
The title of this book has been chosen reluctantly. It is not intended by it to imply that those who hold what are here set forth as dispensational beliefs are abnormal or disproportionate in doctrine. This thesis purports to demonstrate that so-called dispensationalists find the specific meaning of the Scriptures which God intended to impart and are therefore, by the most exacting proofs, found to be both reasonable and normal in their interpretations.
This title is used only that this discussion may be identified in its relation to various articles others have written on this theme.
Much Scripture is cited. Usually the citation is not exhaustive, but serves only to provide one proof-text out of the many. For want of space, the Scriptures could not be quoted. The sincere reader is requested to look up each passage. Otherwise, the value of this book, such as it is, will not be gained.
