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THEOLOGICAL POSITIONS (rev. 3/12/2009)

Other Theologies: Theological Positions: Premillennial Amillennial Charismatic Postmillennial Creation Spirituality Dispensational Evangelical Feminist Ultra-Dispensational Hope Theology Pretribulational Lutheran Theology Postribulational Mercersburg Theology Midtribulational Neo-Liberalism Progressive Dispensational Neo-Orthodoxy Reconstruction/Theonomy Theology Calvinist/Reformed Pentecostal Theology Arminian Process Theology Puritan Theology Secular Theology Self-Esteem Theology/Possibility Thinking Social Third-Wave Movement

PREMILLENNIAL (Historic premillennial is usually covenant, post-tribulation. Gaebelein, A. C. Dispensational premillennial is generally pre-tribulation.) Gill, John Goodwin, Thomas Alford, Henry Grudem, Wayne Amerding, C. A. Hiebert, Davis Edmond Anderson, Robert Hoyt, Herman A. (Disp.) Beasley-Murray, G. R. Ironside, H. A. Bengel, _____ Jennins, Frederick C. Blackstone, William E. , Bonar, A.A. Keach, Benjamin Bowman, John (Historic) Kromminga, D. H. Chafer, Lewis Sperry Ladd, George E. (Historic) Culver, Robert D. Lange, John Darby, John Nelson Lightfoot, J.B. DeHaan, Martin R. Lillie, (John?) Ellicott, C.J. Luck, G. Coleman English, Eugene Schuyler MacArthur, John Erickson, Millard (Historic) MacIntosh, C.H. Fausset, A. R. Mauro, Philip (Historic) Feinberg, Charles L. Mayhue, Richard Fuller, Daniel Payton (Historic) McClain, Alva (Disp.) 1 Meyer, F.B. Lenski, Richard Morgan, George Campbel Leopold, Herbert C. Mounce, Robert Luther, Martin Newell, William Reed Machen, John Gresham Ottman, Ford C. Mauro, Philip Payne, J. Barton (Historic) Morgan, George Campbell Piper, John Morris, Leon Ross, James Robert (Historic) Pink, A. W. Ryle, J.C. Pusey, Edward B. Ryrie, Charles (Disp.) Ridderbos, Herman Seiss, Joseph A. Riddlebarger, Kim Smith, Jacob B. Sproul, R.C. Smith, Wilbur M. Summers, Ray Steir. _____ Swete, Hanry Barclay Stevens, W. C. Van Til, Cornelius Stifler, James M. Vos, Gerhardus Strombeck, J. F. Waltke, Bruce (formerly Disp.) Tatford, Frederick A. Warfield, B. B. Tenney, Merrill C. Young, Edward J. Tregelles, Samuel P. Unger, Merril POSTMILLENNIAL Walvoord, John (Disp.) Westcott, B.F. Alexander, Archibald Wiley, H. Orton Alexander, Joseph A. Barnes, Albert AMILLENNIAL Boettner, Loraine (Amillennials are usually covenant) Brown, David Dabney, R. L. , Jay Edward Dabney, Robert T. Allis, Oswald T. Edward, Jonathan Augustine Fairbairn, Patrick Bass, Clarence B. Hodge, A. A. Beckwith, Isbon T. Hodge, Charles Bennett, T. Miles Marcellus, K. K. J. Berkof, Louis Murray, John Berkouwer, G. C. North, Gary Bowman, John Wick Shedd, W. G. T. Brown, David Snowden, James H. Calvin, John Strong, Austustus H. Charles, Robert H. Warfield, Benjamin B. Colclasure, Chuck Ellison, Henry L. DISPENSATIONAL Farrar, Fredric W. (usually premillennial) Ferguson, Sinclair Foster, Richard J. Barnhouse, Donald Grey Gerstner, John Brooks, James H. Gifford, Edwin H. Chafer, Lewis Sperry Hamilton, Floyd E. Darby, John Nelson Hendricksen, William English, E. Schuyler Hoekema, Anthony A. Feinberg, Charles L. Hoeksema, Herman Gaebelein, Arno C. Kik, Jacob Marcellus Gaebelein, Frank Laetsch, Theodore F. K. Graves, J. R. 2 Hoyt, Herman Orr, James Ironside, H. A. Owen, john Kelly, William Payne, J. Barton MacArthur, John Poythress, Vern Mackintosh, C. H. Robertson, O. Palmer Mason, Clarence E. Sproul, R. C. Mayhue, Richard Van Gemeren, Willem McClain, Alva J. Van Til, Cornelius Pache, Rene Pentecost, J. Dwight PRE-TRIBULATIONAL Pettingill, William Ryrie, Charles Harrison, Norman B. Sauer, Erich Hogg, Charles F. Scofield, C. I. Stanton, Gerald B. Scroggie, W. Graham Theissen, Henry C. Walvoord, John F. Vine, Howard Frederick

POST-TRIBULATIONAL ULTRA-DISPENSATIONAL ( began with Paul not at Pentecost) Erickson, Millard Ladd, G. E. Baker, Charles F. Lang, George H. Berean Society Tenney, Merrill C. Bullinger, Ethelbert W. Gelesnoff, Vladimir MID-TRIBULATIONAL Grace Bible College (Grand Rapids) Grace Gospel Fellowship Peters, George N. H. Knoch, A.E. McGee, J. Vernon PROGRESSIVE DISPENSATIONAL O'Hair, J.C. (similar to covenant, premillennial) Sellers, Otis Q. Stam, Cornelius R. Blaising, Craig A. Welch, Charles H. Bock, Darrel L. Worldwide Grace Testimony (Grace Mission) Saucy, Robert L. Turner, David COVENANT RECONSTRUCTIONIST / THEONOMIST Allis, O. T. (generally postmillennial) Bass, Clarence B. Bear, James Bahnsen, Greg Berkof, Louis Chilton, David Carson, Herbert North,, Gary Cotton, John Rushdooney, Rousas Fuller, Daniel Paxton Gerstner, John CALVINIST / REFORMED Goodwin, Thomas Hendricksen, William Adams, Jay Edward Hodge, A. A. Aguinas, Thomas Hodge, Charles Alexander, J. A. Ladd, George Eldon St. Augustine Lincoln, C. Fred Bavinck, Herman Mauro, Philip Beeke, Joel Murray, John Berkhof, Hendrikus 3 Bloesch, Donald Strong, A. H. Boetner, Loraine Thiessen, Henry Clarence Boice, James Thomas, Curtis C. Bridges, Jerry Van Til, Cornelius Buswell, J. O. Ware, Bruce Calvin, John Warfield, B. B. Carson, Donald A. Watson, Thomas Dabney, Robert L. Well, David Dever, Mark White, James Duncan, J. Ligon Whitney, Donald Edwards, Jonathan Wilson, Jeffrey B. Ferguson, Sinclair Filson, Floyd Vivian ARMINIAN Frame, John Hacket, Horacia , William J. Haldane, Robert Andrews, Herbert T. Haykin, Michel Basinger, David Hendricksen, William Basinger, Randall G. Hodge, A. A. Carter, Charles W. Hodge, Charles Cottrell, Jack W. Horton, Michael Craig, William L. Hughes, Philip Earle, Ralph Johnson, Phil Evans, C. Stephen Jones, Findlay, George G. Keller, Timothy Finney, Charles Kik, Jaboc Marcellus Forester, Roger T. Lawson, Steve Fritz, Guy Lecerf, Auguste Graham, Billy Luther, Martin Headlan, Arthur MacArthur, John Lewis, C. S. Malone, Fred MacDonald, William G. Marcel, Pierre Mantey, Julius R. Martin, Albert Marshall, I. Howard Mohler, Albert Marston, V. Paul Moore, Thomas V. Melanchthan, Philip Moule, H.C.G. Miethe, Terry L. Murray, Andrew Miley, , John Montgomery, John Warwick Nicole, Roger Osborne, Grant R. Orr, James Pinnock, Clark Packer, J. I. Reichenbach, Bruce R. Pieters, Albertus Rice, Richard Pipa, Joseph A. Sanday, William Piper, John Sanders, John E. Robertson, O. Palmer Shank, Robert L. Rushdooney, R. J. Simpson, Albert B. Ryken, Philip Graham Taylor, Vincent Ryle, J. C. Turner, George Allen Schaeffer, Francis Walls, Jerry L. Sproul, R. C. Wesley, John Steele, David N. Wiley, H. Orton Storms, C. Samuel Strombeck, J. F. 4 OTHER THEOLOGIES LIBERATION THEOLOGY Boff, Leonardo ANTINOMIANISM Gutierrez, Gustavo Agricola, Johannes Miguez-Bonino, Jose Brearley, Roger Crisp, Tobias LUTHERAN THEOLOGY Eaton, John Althaus, Paul Hutchinson, Anne Bornkamm, Heinrich Saltmarsh, John, Chemnitz, Martin Traske, John Forde, Gerhard O. Towne, Robert Gerhard, Johann Jensen, Robert BLACK THEOLOGY Kolb, Robert Lohse, Bernhard Cleage, Jr., Albert B. Luther, Martin Cone, James Maier, Paul L. Roberts, Deotis Melanchthon, Philip Montgomery, John W. CHARISMATIC Pieper, Franz Preus, Robert Benett, Dennis Sasse, Hermann Braham, William Veith Gene Edward Bredesen, Harald Walter, C. F. W. Christensen, Larry Wengert, Timothy Coe, Jack duPlessis, David MERCERSBURB THEOLOGY Harper, Michael C. Nevin, John Williamson Irwin, David Schaff, Philip Osborne, Tommy Lee Roberts, Oral NEO-LIBERALISM Smith, Chuck Bultmann, Rudolf Wilkerson, David Coffin, Henry S. Gilkey, Langdon CREATION SPIRITUALITY Van Dusen, H.P Matthew Fox () Schleiermacher, Fredrich Fosdick, Harry E. EVANGELICAL FEMINISTS Ogden, Schuber Bilezikian, Gilbert Tielhard de Chardin, Pierre Gundry, Patricia Tillich, Paul Hardesty, Nancy Tracy, David (Catholic) Jewett, Paul Mollenkott, Virginia NEO-ORTHODOXY Scanzoni, Letha Barth, Karl Spencer, Aida Bensancon Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Williams, Dan Bunner, Emil Niebuhr, Reinhold HOPE THEOLOGY Metz, Johanes (Catholic) NEW CONVENANT THEOLOGY Mollmann, Jurgen (Reformed) Wells, Tom Pannenberg, Wolfhart (Lutheran) Zaspel, Fred Lehrer, Steve Reisinger, John

5 PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY SCHOLASTICISM Hayford, Jack Abelard, Peter Mason, Charles H. Aquinas, Thomas McPherson, Amy Semple Bonaventure Ockham, William of PIETISM Arndt, Johann SECULAR THEOLOGY “ is Dead” Francke, August Hermann Altizer, Thomas Spener, Philipp Jakob Cox, Harvey Zinzerdorf, Count Von Hamilton, William Robinson, John A. T. PROCESS THEOLOGY Rubenstein, Richard L. (Jewish Rabbi) Hartshorne, Charles Vahanian, Gabriel Whitehead, Alfred North SELF ESTEEM PROSPERITY THEOLOGY THEOLOGY/POSSIBILITYTHINKIG Capps, Charles Peale, Norman Vincent Cho, Paul Schuller, Robert Copeland, Kenneth Hayes, Narvelle Hagin, Kenneth Ely, Richard T. Kenyon, Essek William Gladden, Washington Osteen, John Rauschenbusch, Walter Price, Frederick K. C. Savelle, Jerry THIRD WAVE MOVEMENT Wagner, C. Peter PURITAN THEOLOGY Wimber, John Ames, William Baxter, Richard Bolton, Robert WESLEYAN THEOLOGY Bridge, William, Allen, Richard Brooks, Thomas Asbury, Francis Burroughes, Jeremiah Coke, Albert C. Bunyan, John Varick, James Charnock, Stephen Wesley, Charles Clarkson, David Wesley, John Cotton, John Flavel, John Goodwin, Thomas Gouge, William Hooker, Thomas Manton, Thomas Owen, John Perkins, William Rutherford, Samuel Shepard, Thomas Sibbes, Richard Swinnock, George Ussher, James Watson, Thomas

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