Rapture Fever

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HOUSE OF SEVEN GARBLES
[In response to Dallas Seminary professor H. Wayne House’s
book, Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?, co-authored by Thomas
Ice, I wrote this chapter as a newsletter in 1988, which I
sent to every faculty member at Dallas Seminary. Within a few
months, Dr. House was no longer on the faculty at Dallas. Why
he departed, I do not know. I have revised this chapter slightly.
The remarkable transformation in Dr. House’s thinking since
1988 is indicated by the citation which concludes this chapter.
Note: Thomas Ice claims in the book to have been a Reconstructionist.
There is no published evidence supporting this claim.]
In 1988, after 15 years of Dallas Seminary’s self-imposed
strategic silence, one of its professors went into print with a
critique of the Christian Reconstruction movement. H. Wayne
House offers us Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?’ Guess
what? He does not think that Dominion Theology (which he
equates with Christian Reconstruction, probably for the sake of
increased book sales) is a blessing.2
1. Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Press.
2. Dr. Creg Bahnsen reported to me in 1992 that he had a meeting with
Professor House after House had departed from Dallas Seminary Bahnsen reports
that Dr. House was quite conciliatory Dr. House told Bahnsen that he regretted
having become involved with the Dominion Theolofl book project. Because of the