CHARLES HODGE: POSTMILLENNIALIST

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by Dennis Swanson (The  Master’s College) Charles Hodge (1797–1878) has been called, “the most prominent American Presbyterian theologian of the nineteenth century” and was clearly one of the most outstanding theologians that America has ever produced. Mark Noll presents this evaluation of Hodge’s contributions: “[Archibald] Alexander’s student Charles Hodge (1797-1878) extended this theological viewpoint into [...]

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MISSING WITH WHITBY

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Most dispensationalists are quite confused regarding the origins of postmillennialism. They are as confused over who started postmilllennialism and when it started as they are over who the Antichrist is and when the Rapture is expected. Hal Lindsey as confidently declares its modern origins as he does the latest date of the Rapture: “There is [...]

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BURYING POSTMILLENNIALISM TOO EARLY

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Many evangelicals obscure the facts regarding contemporary options, sometimes through abject ignorance, sometimes through careless overstatement. Whatever the reason, a great disservice is done to the unsuspecting reader who inadvertently adopts and then labors under a delusion. For instance, we often read that postmillennialism is dead, supposedly having totally collapsed because of World War I. [...]

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WAS O. T. ALLIS POSTMILLENNIAL?

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Dr. Allis first served as Instructor in Semitic Philology at the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1910-1922 and then as Assistant Professor of Semitic Philology at the same institution, from 1922-1929. Reorganization of the  Princeton Seminary placed modernists in control of the school and so prompted the resignations of Drs. Allis, J. Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson [...]

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