Dispensational Study Group
Evangelical Theological Society

This page serves as a repository for papers presented at the Dispensational Study Group meetings held at the ETS annual conference. The papers have been posted with the permission of the presenters and at the request of the current DSG chairman, Dr. Phil Leuck.

If you were a presenter or respondent prior to 2006 and would like your paper posted here, please contact the site owner, Dr. Rod Decker.

2007, San Diego, CA

Main paper: D. Brent Sandy (Department of Religious Studies, Grace College, Winona Lake, Ind), "Plowshares and Pruning Hooks and the Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism"

Response: Mike Stallard (Prof. of Theology, Director of PhD program, Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, Penn.), "Response to D. Brent Sandy’s Paper: “Plowshares and Pruning Hooks..."

2006, Washington DC

Main paper: Dr. W. E. Glenny (Northwestern College), "Gentiles and the People of God: A Study of Apostolic Hermeneutics and Theology in Acts 15"

Response paper: Dr. Rodney J. Decker (Baptist Bible Seminary), "A Response to W. Edward Glenny, 'Gentiles and the People of God' "

Rejoinder from Dr. Glenny

Surrejoinder from Dr. Decker

The presenters have "tidied up" their rejoinder comments for posting here. Dr. Glenny's were in written form (since he was able to prepare a written rejoinder to the response in advance of the session); Dr. Decker's were in hastily scribbled notes made during the rejoinder. The time constraints of the study group session did not allow time for the surrejoinder, so it is presented here.

Earlier DSG papers

(This section is incomplete; it has just the ones I've found posted elsewhere on the web; please let me know of others.)

• An Essentialist Response To Robert A. Pyne’s “The New Man in an Immoral Society: Expectations Between the Times” (Racial Reconciliation), Mike Stallard, 1997
• The Fulfillment of the Law, Thomas R. Schreiner (date?)
• High Hopes for 21st-Century Dispensationalism: A Response to "Hope and Dispensationalism: An Historical Overview and Assessment" by Gary L. Nebeker, R. Todd Mangum, DSG, Nashville, 11/16/2000
• The Future of Dispensationalism: A Friendly Response to John Master, Mike Stallard, DSG, Toronto, 2002

Related materials

• Dispensational Study Group: An Introduction, Ronald T. Clutter, GTJ 10.2 (Fall 1989) [only partial article online]
• New Directions in Dispensationalism, Gerry Breshears, ETS paper, 11/23/1991
• Changing Patterns in American Dispensational Theology, Craig A. Blaising
• Why I Am a Dispensationalist with a Small "d," JETS, Sep 1998, Darrell L. Bock
• Dispensationalism, in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Rodney J. Decker

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