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in December, 1992, announced the firing of the entire full-time
faculty as of June, 1993. Academic priorities are shifting.
But what of Dallas Seminary? Consider the 1989 prediction
by Rev. Thomas D. Ice, a Dallas Seminary graduate and the coauthor
of Dominion Theology: Bi2nsing or Curse? (1988):
By the year 2000, Dallas Theological Seminary will no longer be
dispensational. [Professional] priorities are elsewhere than the
defense of systematic dispensationalism from external criticisms
By the time Ice gave this interview to a Christian Reconstructionist
magazine, his co-author, H. Wayne House, had left
Dallas Seminary to join the faculty of a small Baptist college in
Oregon. In 1992, he departed from that institution. House was
always far more an activist than a theologian. His activist priorities
have produced shifts in his theology, as we can see in his
essay in the 1992 Journal of The Evangelical Theological Society. g
Question: Where will some fired-up dispensationalist attend
seminary in a decade? After he enrolls, what will he be taught?
Answer: not Scofield, Chafer, Ryrie, or Walvoord. This is why
dispensationalism is experiencing a fundamental paradigm
shift. The younger theologians who are engineering it are too
wise to admit publicly what they are doing, and the older men
who cannot stop the shift are too embarrassed to admit what is
being done to them and their lifetime work. They are being
disinherited: exactly what they predicted would happen to Christians
in history. Theirs is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Walvoord Responds With 1953 Classroom Notes
In the July-Septembe~ 1990, issue of Dallas Seminary’s
Bibliotheca Sacra, the major scholarly journal of dispensationalism,
Dr. John Walvoord at last responded to Christian Recon-
8. Interview with Martin Selbrede, Counsel of Cluzkedon (Dec. 1989).
9. See above, Chapter 7, Conclusion.