Vital Prophetic Issues: Examining Promises and Problems in Eschatology
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Overview
The prophetic passages of the Bible demand a whole-Scripture approach in order to produce useful study results. Vital Prophetic Issues: Examining Promises and Problems in Eschatology makes available to the reader exactly this, applied by some of the best evangelical writers of our time.
Some included chapters are:
- "Basic Considerations in Interpreting Prophecy" by John F. Walvoord
- "The Premillennial Interpretation of History" by Ramesh P. Richard
- "The Necessity of Dispensationalism" by Charles C. Ryrie
- "A New Look at Dispensationalism" by Roy L. Aldrich
Top Highlights
“For this reason, most amillenarians trace their view to Augustine (354–430), the famous bishop of Hippo in North Africa. Augustine was the father of amillennialism because he discarded the allegorical system of interpretation of the Bible as a whole as advanced by the school at Alexandria in favor of limiting allegorical interpretation to prophetic Scriptures only.” (Page 17)
“Among conservatives who regard the Bible as authoritative in prophecy as in history, a more serious attempt is made to try to determine what the Bible actually reveals. Here the diversity is not based on the premise that the Bible in some respects is untrue; instead, the difficulty arises in various schools of interpretation.” (Page 14)
“Roberts is right when he says that dispensationalism is an interpretation of history” (Page 23)
Product Details
- Title: Vital Prophetic Issues: Examining Promises and Problems in Eschatology
- Author: Roy B. Zuck
- Publisher: Kregel
- Publication Date: 1995
- Pages: 293
About Dr. Roy B. Zuck
Dr. Roy B. Zuck (1932–2013) was Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary where he served in various professorial and administrative positions since 1973. A former executive vice-president for Scripture Press in Wheaton, Illinois, Zuck always had a passion for solid, Bible-based publications in the realm of Christian youth ministry education. He authored or edited hundreds of books and journal entries and served as the editor of the oldest theological quarterly in the western world—Bibliotheca Sacra.
Born on January 20, 1932, in Phoenix, Arizona, the older of two children, Zuck quickly developed a love for Scripture and heard God's calling at age 11. He was so anxious to begin his Bible training that he wrote Biola University in La Mirada, California, to request an application for admission. Biola told him to wait a couple of years before applying. Zuck entered Biola in 1949, held the position of president of the student council his senior year and served as the class speaker while on his way to graduating cum laude at the top of his class in 1953. He met his wife-to-be Dottie while they both served on student council, and they were married in 1954.
After earning his B.A. from Biola, Zuck attended Dallas Theological Seminary, completing his Th.M. in 1957, writing his thesis on the challenging imprecatory Psalms. During his doctoral residency, he assisted Howard Hendricks as a teaching fellow, and gained his Th.D. in 1961 after writing his subsequently published and re-published dissertation The Place of the Holy Spirit in Teaching, which is presently in print as Spirit Filled Teaching. Dr. Zuck's graduate studies at Northern Illinois University and North Texas State University have fed his search for knowledge since then.
Dr. Zuck spent fourteen years in the publishing business, and then returned to Dallas Theological Seminary in 1973, taking on the tasks and responsibilities of assistant academic dean and associate professor of Bible exposition. He became academic dean in 1985, serving as such until achieving the position of department chairman and Senior Professor of Bible Exposition in 1992. Dr. Zuck retired from Dallas Seminary in 1996.