A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
(Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1955). Boyd, an
Assemblies of God teacher, used Scofield’s definition of
“dispensation” and his seven ages but rejected his definition
of the kingdom of heaven and the postponed-kingdom theory.
238 R. V. Pierard, “Evangelicalism,” in Elwell, ed., Evangeli-
cal Dictionary, 379.
239 “The National Association of Evangelicals, About NAE,”
www.nae.net/about.htm (Carol Stream, IL: NAE, 1999).
240 Christine Gardner, “Hungry for God,” Christianity
Today, 5 April 1999, 33.
241 “The National Association of Evangelicals, Ministry,
Statement of Faith,” www.nae.net/ministry-statement.html
(Carol Stream, IL: NAE, 1999).
242 Frank Stagg, The Holy Spirit Today (Nashville:
Broadman, 1973), 11-18. In a telephone conversation with J. L.
Hall, Stagg explained that as a New Testament professor, he
derived his views on the Godhead from the New Testament
instead of the creeds. He further acknowledged that his views
were the same as those of T. F. Tenney, United Pentecostal district
superintendent of Louisiana. Interestingly, Stagg had baptized
Tenney as a boy in the Baptist church, before he
converted to the United Pentecostal Church.
243 See James D. G. Dunn, Christology, vol. 1 of The Christ
and The Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 367, 371;
Oscar Cullmann, The Christology of the New Testament
(London: SCM Press, 1963), 265-66.
244 W. A. Criswell, Expository Sermons on Revelation
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1961-66) 1:145-46.
245 Christianity Today, 17 March 1989.
246 Charles C. Ryrie, So Great Salvation: What It Means to
Believe in Jesus Christ (1989), emphasis in original.
247 Zane Hodges, Absolutely Free! (1989).
248 Christianity Today, 18 March 1988.
249 Christianity Today, 5 March 1990.
250 See J. L. Hall, The United Pentecostal Church and the
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