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the rainbow are more socially relevant than the resurrection of
Christ, His giving of the Great Commission, the revealed law of
God, and the empowering of Christians by the Holy Spirit, you
will remain culturally irrelevant.
Conclusion
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? is 460 pages long. There
seem to be errors on at least 410 of these pages. (The rest are
indexes and bibliography.) Gary DeMar’s book, The Debate Over
Christian Reconstructwn, appeared three weeks before the Ice-
House book did, and many of the authors’ theological objections
to what they call dominion theology were answered in
detail there. They were answered in much greater detail in
Bahnsen and Gentry’s House Divided.12 These answers have not
satisfid Rev. Ice, who remains a lonely and even obsessed defender
of what he regards as traditional dispensationalism, but
Dr. House seems at least willing to let bygones be bygones - the
main bygone being his career as a professor
The dispensational movement waited 15 years until Rev. Ice
volunteered to carry its banner into battle against the dreaded
Reconstructionists. His friend Sancho did not help much in this
ill-conceived and ill-executed task. Ice and House dropped this
banner and have substituted a “new, improved” one. They have
abandoned traditional dispensationalism in the name of dispennationalism’s
key conclusion: the continued social irrelevance of
Christianity. I can safely say that the dispensational movement
is now buried intellectually unless someone else picks up the
original banner, tattered though it is, and at least stands with it.
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12. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989.