Term
Progressive Dispensationalism
A dispensationalist view that sees the church as illustrating spiritual blessings shared by all God's people while maintaining ethnic and national distinctions.
Filed underEschatologyCovenant TheologyBiblical TheologySystematic Theology
Definition
A variation of dispensationalism that maintains an Israel/church distinction but views the church as a revelation or illustration of spiritual blessings that all God's people through the ages will share while preserving their distinctive ethnic, national differences and roles. The view maintains that dispensations are successive and not different, but differs from covenant theology in that each dispensation has discontinuity to the next.
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Sources
- 1.Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants. (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012). 66Original citation: Gentry and Wellum, Kingdom through Covenant, 66.
Last revised August 14, 2026