Progressive dispensationalism

Numerous dispensational scholars came to a rough consensus and in the early 1990s produced three main books articulating progressive dispensationalist views.

[3][2][4] Consequently, the editors and authors of the books —Craig A. Blaising, Darrell L. Bock, and Robert L. Saucy— are considered the primary spokespersons for progressive dispensationalism.

Progressive and traditional dispensationalists hold to many common beliefs, including views that are uniquely dispensational.

The vast majority of adherents in both schools hold to a distinction between Israel and the Church,[2]: 49–51  a future pre-tribulation rapture,[2]: 317  a seven-year tribulation, and a Millennial Kingdom[2]: 54–56  in which the rule of Jesus Christ will be centered in Jerusalem.

[2]: 33  In general, the concept means God's revealed plans concerning Israel from the previous dispensation has been "put on hold" until it resumes again after the rapture.

Thus progressives and traditionalists alike place great emphasis on the original meaning and audience of the text.

In other words, God used additional New Testament revelation to further expand the participants of the new covenant to include believing Gentiles.

The restatement of the "parenthesis" comes from the nature of the Church as the mystery, previously not known and now revealed, that Jews and Gentiles are united in one body (Eph.

In other parts of the world, outside of the United States, dispensationalists had also laid a strong emphasis on the present aspect of the Kingdom of God.