>I don't think there is a theological connection between Arminianism and
>Dispensationlism. My own tradition is Arminian and amillennial.
As always, there is s strong component of my own experience in what I say.
I came to know the Lord in a Wesleyan church which was emphatically
Arminian and premillenial. The Wesleyans I knew in my former church were
also quite emphatic that they were not dispensationalists, because they
believe all the gifts of the Holy Spirit are active today. Yet I know
Calvinists who would have identified them as dispensationalists because of
their eschatology. So obviously the situation is not as clear-cut as I
implied.
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>Vis-a-vis Scripture, the literalist/fundamentalist movement has its roots in
>Calvinism, especially Warfield and Princeton Th. Seminary, I believe. Perhaps
>Terry can clarify this point.
>
There was a post from a student at Covenant Seminary which drew some
distinctions between Calvinists like Warfield and Machen and the
fundamentalists that you should read. Again, my prejudices may be showing,
but my sense is that there was a stronger scholarly tradition among the
Calvinists than among the fundamentalists.
Bill Hamilton
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