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surely the situation today) or else they have assumed that their
followers are not readers of theological books, and therefore
book-length criticisms by other theologians are dismissed as
institutionally irrelevant. The dispensational movement at best
throws up one book per half generation to defend the system.
In the case of Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?, its academic
co-author immediately began to retreat, both geographically
and theologically. Dr. House may no longer be a dispensationalis~
surely he no longer defends the traditional system with .
the fanatic though incoherent determination that Rev. Ice does.
Ice is the dispensational movement’s last visible defender; his
newsletters reply to the system’s major critics, namely, Christian
Reconstructionists. No one else bothers to defend the system.
Without either a long-term strategy of cultural replacement
or a strategy of rapid and comprehensive intellectual defense,
a movement can recruit and retain only the less bright and less
dedicated members of the next generation. This is the situation
in which dispensationalists find themselves today.
My conclusion: we a= witnessing dispensationalism’s terminal
generation. Just wait.
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