Understanding Dispensationalists

Many books have been written to show that dispensationalism is either right or wrong. In this book, Vern Poythress takes a different approach.

Is Scripture one unified plan of redemption, a disconnected series of dispensations, or something in between? The author outlines the current situation of dispensationalism and provides a careful exegetical challenge to the varying forms of dispensational thinking. This edition adds a postscript in which Poythress responds to feedback from dispensational readers.

Table of Contents:

1. Getting Dispensationalists and Nondispensationalists to Listen to Each Other
2. Characteristics of Scofield Dispensationalism
3. Variations of Dispensationalism
4. Developments in Covenant Theology
5. The Near Impossibility of Simple Refutations
6. Strategy for Dialogues With Dispensationalists
7. The Last Trumpet
8. What is Literal Interpretation?
9. Dispensational Expositions of Literalness
10. The Interpretive Viewpoint in Old testament Israel
11. The Challenge of Typology
12. Hebrews 12:22-24
13. The Fulfillment of Israel in Christ
14. Other Areas for Potential Exploration