Since the rise of new evangelicalism, evangelicals have come to overshadow true fundamentalists as the most visible defenders of biblical inerrancy and other key Christian doctrines. But there are still many who see "neo-evangelicals" as compromised and who advocate strict separation from those who do not share their doctrinal distinctives and certain interpretations of the Bible. (See this page for more on the differences between fundamentalists and other evangelicals.)
Edward F. Hills is one of the most well-spoken representatives of fundamentalist views. Ruckman's outlandish claims and name-calling are also good for an entertaining read.
Jim Bakker (b. 1940) - Pentecostal fundamentalist, he was the founder of PTL and a Word of Faith preacher until he was imprisoned for defrauding contributors. His evident conversion since that time has led him to vehemently oppose the present Word of Faith movement and criticize American materialism. Older Titles: Eight Keys to Success; God Answers Prayer; Move That Mountain!; Run to the Roar; Newer Titles: I Was Wrong; Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse. (Tammy Faye Bakker is still involved in the Word of Faith movement.)
Carl E. Baugh - founder of the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas, and host of TBN's Creation in the 21st Century. Opposed as extreme by Answers in Genesis, he insists that the earth was created in 3987 B.C. and surrounded by a canopy of metallic hydrogen before the flood. Baugh believes the stars literally sing and that all dinosaurs were herbivores even after Adam's fall. Titles: Creation in Symphony; Dinosaur; Footprints and the Stones of Time; Jurassic Park: Fact vs. Fiction; Panorama of Creation; Why Do Men Believe Evolution Against All Odds?.
Harold Camping (b. 1925) - amillennialism fundamentalist founder and head of World Harvest Family Radio since 1958. Formerly associated with the Christian Reformed Church, he has more recently declared the church age over and all churches satanic. His new mission is to call all Christians worldwide to leave their churches and await the rapture. His contribution to young-earth creationism is his contention that the entire universe is actually only a few light-years across, and the planets and stars are much closer than scientists claim. Titles: Are You Ready?; 1994 (which predicted the return of Christ in that year); The End of the Church Age and After.
Jack T. Chick - Arminian fundamentalist evangelist and cartoonist known most for his comic book tracts. Also produces audiotapes, videos, and minibooks, as well as the "Battle Cry" newspaper. Often rebuked for spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about other evangelists and ministries. Holding to Charles Finney's theology but fiery and sarcastic in his presentation, his tracts focus on judgment. King James Only and an enthusiastic supporter of Gail Riplinger. Titles: The Assignment; Be Prepared; The Big Betrayal; King of Kings; The Light of the World; The Next Step; The Secret World of Mormonism; The Selling of Jesus; Smokescreens; This Was Your Life.
David Cloud - fundamentalist Baptist founder of Way of Life Literature and editor of the on-line magazine O Timothy. Cloud's work supports the King James Only movement and seeks to expose post-World War II evangelicalism as apostate. He is primarily Arminian, although he believes in eternal security. Titles: Avoiding the Snare of Seventh-Day Adventism; Contemporary Christian Music under the Spotlight; Evangelicals and Rome; Examining James White's "The King James Only Controversy"; For Love of the Bible; Has the SBC Been Rescued from Liberalism?; The Laughing Revival from Azusa to Pensacola; Myths About the Modern Versions; Repentance Is More Than a Sinner's Prayer; Things Hard to Be Understood; The Way of Life Encyclopedia. Not to be confused with No Boundaries author Henry Cloud.
Finis Jennings Dake (1902-1987) - dispensational Pentecostal fundamentalist. A minister who rejected formal training and traditional theology for his own extremely literal interpretation of the Bible. Much of his labor in interpreting Scripture did not even involve reading the Bible, since, as he claimed, the Holy Spirit taught him hundreds of verses without his ever having to read or memorize them. He also credited the illumination of the Spirit for his special understanding of difficult texts. His Dake's Annotated Reference Bible is controversial for teaching the gap theory, adoptionism, racial segregation, and a view of the Trinity as three Jehovahs (three Gods), each with their own separate bodies, souls, and spirits. Other titles: Bible Truths Unmasked; God's Plan for Man; Heavenly Hosts; The Kidnap of the Church; The Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus; Revelation Expounded; 30 Reasons for the Separation of the Races; What the Bible Says about the Future Antichrist.
Samuel Gipp (b. 1950) - fundamentalist conference speaker and former pastor. Analytical but forceful in his arguments, he is one of the most visible defenders of the King James Only movement, of which his strategies and style are typical. He stresses that the Bible is only given "to one people in one language." He also devotes attention to the Christian origins of America and laments that America has been so long without a national evangelist. (He describes Billy Graham as an "employee of the liberal establishment.") Titles: The Answer Book; Frustration as a Weapon; In Defense of the King James Bible; The King James vs. False Bible Versions; How to Minister to Youth; Living with Pain; A Practical and Theological Study of the Gospel of John; Student's Defense of the Authorized Version; An Understandable History of the Bible.
Duane Gish (b. 1921) - biochemist and vice president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). Gish believes young-earth creationism is a central teaching of the Christian faith. He also holds to flood geology and believes that dinosaurs co-existed with humans as late as 1200 B.C. He defends his views in books to both adults and children. Titles: The Amazing Story of Creation; Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics; Creationist Research, 1964-1988; Dinosaurs and the Bible; Dinosaurs by Design; Evidence Against Evolution; Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record; Evolution: The Fossils Say No!; Fossils: Key to the Present; Speculations and Experiments on the Origins of Life; Teaching Creation Science in Public Schools; Up with Creation.Jay P. Green - fundamentalist founder of Christian Literature World and Sovereign Grace Publishers, and a staunch defender of the Textus Receptus. Green urges second-degree separation and thus shuns those who use modern translations, which he believes are the result of a satanic conspiracy. Titles: The Classic Bible Dictionary (Ed.); Clssics on the Trinity (Ed); The Gnostics, the New Versions, and the Deity of Christ; The Interlinear Bible; Literal Translation of the Bible (LITV); The Modern King James Version; The New Versions and the Doctrine of the Word; Unholy Hands on the Bible (Ed.).
Ken Ham - executive director for Answers in Genesis, who believes that young-earth creation should be a primary emphasis in evangelism. His acerbic tone and views have created rifts with other creationists, such as his declaration that old-earth creationists should be banned from ordination and possibly church membership. Recently, he edited a condemnation of new evangelicalism called When Christians Roamed the Earth. Other titles: A Is for Adam; And God Saw that It Was Good; Creation Evangelism for the New Millennium; D Is for Dinosaur; Did Adam Have a Belly Button?; Did Eve Really Have an Extra Rib?; Dinsoaurs of Eden; Genesis and the Decay of the Nations; The Genesis Solution; The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved; The Lie: Evolution; One Blood; 101 Signs of Design; What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs; Why Won't They Listen?.
Edward F. Hills (1912-1981) - Reformed fundamentalist trained under John Murray, J. Gresham Mächen, and Abraham Kuyper. Considered the best defender of the King James Only position. Hills relies on the "logic of faith" and the providence of God to preserve Scripture, and refuses to engage in suspicion, caricature, or conspiracy theories. Among his stranger ideas was geocentrism, the belief that the sun and planets revolve around the Earth. His work The King James Version Defended is available on-line at the above link. He also wrote Believing Bible Study.
Kent Hovind (b. 1953) - fundamentalist independent Baptist. Known as "Dr. Dino," he produces anti-evolution tracts for Jack Chick and is head of Creation Science Evangelism. Recongizable for his harsh, abrasive tone and considered something of a renegade, Hovind's arguments for young-earth creationism have drawn criticism from other young-earth organizations. Some of his more controversial beliefs include Baugh's canopy theory and a Christian variation of astrology. Title: Claws, Jaws, and Dinosaurs.
Dave Hunt (b. 1926) - Arminian fundamentalist who vehemently opposes Catholicism, ecumenism, Calvinism, psychology, and Eastern thought. His writing is biting and harsh, as he sees all these influences as idolatrous threats to the church. And don't even ask how he feels about deliverance ministries. Titles: America, Israel, and Islam; A Cup of Trembling; Debating Calvinism (w/ James R. White); Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist; The Mind Invaders; The New Spirituality; Occult Invasion; Sanctuary of the Chosen; The Seduction of Christianity; What Love Is This?: Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God; Whatever Happened to Heaven?; A Woman Rides the Beast.
Jack Hyles (1926-2001) - Arminian fundamentalist pastor and founder of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. Unparalleled in his popularity among independent Baptists, he opposed Lordship salvation and was King James Only to the extent that he believed only people who used the KJV exclusively (those of "incorruptible seed") were born again Christians. Titles: The Hyles Church Manual; Hyles Sunday School Material; Let's Go Soul Winning; Let's Hear Jack Hyles.
Dennis Gordon Lindsay - charismatic dispensational fundamentalist. President and CEO of Christ for the Nations, a missions organization. While most of his books focus on defending an unusual form of young-earth creationism, he also teaches on physical healing and deliverance ministry as an integral part of the gospel, and the place of Israel in end-time prophecy. Titles: Amazing Discoveries in the Words of Jesus; The Birth of Planet Earth and the Age of the Universe; The Canopied Earth; Dinosaur Dilemma; Dismantling of Evolution's Sacred Cow; Foundations for Creationism; The Genesis Flood: Continents in Collision; The Gifts of the Spirit; The Glory of the Genesis Man; The History of Science and Scripture; Prayer and Fasting: The Master Key to the Impossible; The Original Star Wars and the Age of Ice; Prayer that Moves Mountains; Satan's Demon Manifestations and Delusions; Scenes Beyond the Grave; Sermons on Dominion Over Demons, Disease, and Death.
Texe Marrs - pastor of Home Bible Church and president of Power of Prophecy Ministries. A leading proponent of the King James Only movement and Christian conspiracy theory, implicating ministers as conservative as Richard Land, Billy Graham, and James R. White as New-Agers and "servants of Satan." Marrs holds that the KJV is actually superior to the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible, and teaches that a pretribulational rapture is a central article of the faith. Titles: America Shattered; Circle of Intrigue: The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati Conspiracy; Dark Majesty; Dark Secrets of the New Age; Days of Hunger, Days of Chaos; Hillary Clinton: Big Sister Is Watching You; Mystery Mark of the New Age; New Age Cults and Religions; Project L.U.C.I.D.; Ravaged by the New Age.Rick Miesel (b. 1943) - dispensational, Calvinistic fundamentalist founder of Biblical Discernment Ministries, an organization founded to expose the teachings of evangelical and other conservative leaders. Virtually any well-known Bible teacher is condemned as a heretic on Miesel's website, by virtue of single sentences from sermons, association with other evangelicals, or doctrinal deviations on even the smallest points. He is especially concerned about the influence of psychology (i.e., any mention of mental or emotional well-being) within the church. Also of concern are old-earth creationism, charismatic teaching, and any cooperation between denominations. Most of Miesel's writings are available on the Internet, as are many rebuttals and public corrections.
Henry Morris (1924-2006) - former director of ICR and frequent contributor to the Fundamentalist Journal. Morris was largely responsible for popularizing flood geology, based on the pioneering work of Seventh-Day Adventist George McCready Price. Morris both old-earth creationism and evolution as heresies. He is also one of the more prominent supporters of biblical numerology. Titles: After Eden; (Ed.); The Biblical Basis for Modern Science; Biblical Cosmology and Modern Science; Creation and the Second Coming; The Genesis Record (w/ John C. Whitcomb); God and the Nations; A History of Modern Creationism; King of Creation; Many Infallible Proofs; Men of Science, Men of God; Neocreationism; The Remarkable Journey of Jonah; The Scientific Case for Creation; Scientific Creationism; That You Might Believe; Treasures in the Psalms; The Troubled Waters of Evolution; What Is Creation Science?. Morris also edited the Defender's Study Bible. Not to be confused with New Testament scholar Leon Morris.
Fred Phelps - hyper-Calvinist pastor of Westboro Baptist Church (essentially just his family), whose chief proclamation is God's hatred of homosexuals. Preaches a theology of protest, currently picketing the funerals of American soldiers, believing that the death of the wicked should not be mourned but celebrated. Phelps believes the saving gospel is for the elect only, and judgment is the only message the church ought to preach to the world. He flies the American flag upside-down to indicate national distress, and says all churches that preach that God loves everyone are run by "hell-bound false prophets" and "money-grubbing heretics."Gail Riplinger -
literal translation advocate who has stated that at least one of her books came "by the direct hand of God" and therefore credits herself as G. A. Riplinger (for "God and Riplinger"). (She has since disclaimed belief in extrabiblical revelation.) She is widely cited by both the King James Only movement and its critics, and believes all current Hebrew and Greek reference tools are part of a New Age conspiracy to corrupt the Bible. Titles: The Language of the King James Bible; New Age Bible Versions; Which Bible Is God's Word?.
John W. Robbins - Reformed fundamentalist founder and president of the Trinity Foundation and the Freedom School. Robbins argues for a rational faith that upholds the primacy of biblical doctrine over cultural compromise or pragmatism. In his insistence on doctrinal purity he holds liberals, Catholics, charismatics, new evangelicals, and essentially anyone who is not a Calvinist
to be anti-Christian. Besides his own writings, he has edited and republished works by Gordon H. Clark, B. B. Warfield, J. Gresham Mächen, and other Reformed authors of the recent past. Titles: Cornelius Van Til: The Man and the Myth; Scripture Twisting in the Seminaries; Without a Prayer; and the Trinity Review magazine.
Peter Ruckman (b. 1921) - dispensational Arminian founder of Pensacola Bible Institute who says his God-given calling is to "lambast, scald, and ridicule" anyone who believes any Bible other than the KJV is the word of God. Teaches that the KJV is superior to the original text of the Bible and that its critics are part of an Alexandrian cult. Ruckman has prophesied that he will be assassinated by Janet Reno. Titles: The Alexandrian Cult; The Christian's Handbook of Manuscript Evidence; Millions Disappear: Fact or Fiction?; Satan's Masterpiece: The New ASV; Why I Am Not a Calvinist; Why I Believe the King James Version Is the Word of God.
John C. Whitcomb (b. ca. 1925) - Old Testament professor at Grace Theological Seminary and editor of Grace Theological Journal. Whitcomb teaches that believers who reject young-earth creationism are only "half-born" Christians because they reject part of the word of God. He helped supply the theology behind young-earth creationism and has also written against the charismatic movement. Titles: Astronomy and the Bible (w/ Donald Deyoung); The Charismatic Phenomenon; Darius the Mede; The Early Earth; Esther: Triumph of God's Sovereignty; The Genesis Flood (w/ Henry Morris); The Origin of the Solar System; The World that Perished; and a lay-level commentary on Daniel.Some of the dispensational leaders listed below may also be considered fundamentalists.
These authors are the foremost teachers of dispensationalism, and most are highly insistent that only dispensationalists are faithful to the Bible.
Most recommended here are the family-related writings of Jerry Jenkins and the sermons of John Phillips. David Jeremiah's preaching on church discipline is also not to be missed.
J. R. Church - dispensational end-times expert and host of Prophecy in the News, which links nearly every major news story to biblical prophecy. Best known for believing that each Psalm (up to 99) prophesies events in the twentieth century, leading him to prophesy that the rapture would take place in 1988, and the Battle of Armageddon in 1994. In 1990, he moved his rapture prediction to 2001, based on Psalms 101-107. Many of his messages have to do with conspiracy theories involving the Knights Templar, Freemasonry, the Jews, Theosophists, and the holy grail as the key to world conquest. Titles: Guardians of the Grail and the Men Who Plan to Rule the World; Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms; Hidden Prophecies in the Song of Moses; The Mystery of the Menorah and the Hebrew Alphabet; On the Eve of Adam; They Pierced the Veil.
Mal Couch - fundamentalist editor of the Conservative Theological Journal and president of Tyndale Seminary. The binding doctrinal statement of the institution opposes charismatics, psychology, and progressive dispensationalism. Couch's mission is to restore doctrinal integrity to the church. He is an uncompromising inerrantist and opposes Lordship salvation. Titles: A Bible Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles (Ed); A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Ed.); Dictionary of Premillennial Theology (Ed.); The Fundamentals for the 21st Century (Ed.); Greek and Roman Mythology; An Introduction to Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics; Issues 2000: Evangelical Faith and Cultural Trends in the New Millennium.
Mark Hitchcock - Dallas-trained author formerly with the infamous Southwest Radio Church (known for its many failed predictions). With Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, he has formed the Left Behind Prophecy Club and released a flood of end-time material. Titles: The Coming Islamic Invasion of Israel; The Complete Book of Bible Prophecy; The Fall of the Soviet Union and Bible Prophecy; Is America in Bible Prophecy?; Is the Antichrist Alive Today?; 101 Answers to the Most Asked Questions About the End Times; The Second Coming of Babylon; Seven Signs of the End Times; The Truth Behind Left Behind; What On Earth Is Going On?.
Zane Hodges (b. 1932) - chair of the New Testament department at Dallas Seminary, and the most radical opponent of Lordship salvation. Hodges carries on Lewis Sperry Chafer's two-tiered model of salvation and is also a staunch defender of the Textus Receptus and the King James Version. Hodges helped produce the HCSB and was on the NKJV's 1984 Revision Committee. Titles: Absolutely Free; The Gospel Under Siege; Grace in Eclipse; The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text (w/ Arthur L. Farstad); The Hungry Inherit; The NIV Reconsidered (w/ Earl Radmacher); the Grace New Testament Commentary series, and commentaries on James and John's epistles.
Jerry B. Jenkins (b. 1949) - writer for Moody Bible Institute, author of over 140 books including biographies, marriage and family, and children's and adult fiction. Jenkins is also a traveling humorist who works closely with James Dobson and Billy Graham. Titles: Are We Living in the End Times? (w/ Tim LaHaye); As You Leave Home; Loving Your Marriage Enough to Protect It; Though None Go with Me; 'Twas the Night Before: A Love Story, and the Underground Zealot series. With Tim LaHaye he has also written the end-times fiction series Left Behind and Left Behind: The Kids.
David Jeremiah - successor to Tim LaHaye as president of Christian Heritage College and pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Regular Baptist congregation. He is also a Bible teacher on Turning Point, and his father is chancellor of Cedarville College in Ohio. Jeremiah supports deliverance ministry, has charismatic tendencies, and advocates a return to church discipline. Titles: A Bend in the Road; Escape the Coming Night; God in You: Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit; The Handwriting on the Wall; Invasion of Other Gods; Life Wide Open; The Long War Against God (w/ Henry Morris); My Heart's Desire; The Power of Encouragment; The Prayer Matrix; Prayer, the Great Adventure; Slaying the Giants in Your Life; What the Bible Says About Angels.
Tim LaHaye (b. 1928) - one of the original founders of the Moral Majority, and more recently founder of the Pre-Trib Research Center. LaHaye has been at the forefront of many best-selling bookstore trends over the decades. For some time, the pre-trib rapture has been the cornerstone of LaHaye's message. LaHaye is also strictly Arminian, and sees Calvinism as just short of blasphemy. He and his wife Beverly (founder of Concerned Women for America) have also helped promote the temperament theory of personality. Titles: The Act of Marriage (w/ Beverly LaHaye); Anger Is a Choice; Are We Living in the End Times? (w/ Jerry Jenkins); Babylon Rising (w/ Greg Dinallo); Faith of Our Founding Fathers; How to Be Happy Though Married; How to Study the Bible for Yourself; I Love You, but Why Are We So Different?; The Merciful God of Prophecy; Mind Siege (w/ David Noebel); Perhaps Today; The Rapture: Who Will Face the Tribulation?; Rapture Under Attack; Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain; Revelation Unveiled; Seduction of the Heart (w/ Ed Hindson); The Spirit-Controlled Temperament; Transformed Temperaments; Understanding the Male Temperament; Why You Act the Way You Do. With Jerry Jenkins he has written the end-times fiction series Left Behind and Left Behind: The Kids, and he also produced a Prophecy Study Bible.
Clarence Larkin (1850-1924) - conservative evangelical whose books of charts are still used by dispensationalists today. He was a Northern Baptist pastor and teacher whose teachings on biblical prophecy became popular during the tumult of World War I. Titles: Dispensational Truth; A Medicine Chest for Christian Practitioners; Rightly Dividing the Word; The Second Coming of Christ; The Spirit World; Why I Am a Baptist; and commentaries on Daniel and Revelation.
Robert Lightner (b. 1931) - old-school dispensationalist, and former theology professor at Dallas Seminary. Much of Lightner's writing is doctrinal and aimed at the more scholarly level. In particular he attacks the Calvinist understanding of Christ's atonement, arguing that Christ's death made all men saveable but did not save anyone in particular. (He agrees with Calvinists on most other points.) Lightner also defends the dispensational view of the end-times. Titles: Angels, Satan, and Demons; A Biblical Case for Total Inerrancy; The Death Christ Died: A Biblical Case for Unlimited Atonement; The God of the Bible and Other Gods; Handbook of Evangelical Theology; Heaven for Those Who Can't Believe; Last Days Handbook; Neoevangelicalism Today; The Savior and the Scriptures; Sin, the Savior, and Salvation.
Hal Lindsey (b. 1929) - fundamentalist whose early books set off the current stream of dispensational end-times literature by predicting that the rapture would take place in 1981. Now regularly featured on TBN, though he is not connected with TBN's Word of Faith movement. With aggressive, urgent writing, he connects present-day news events with biblical prophecy and codes hidden in Scripture. Titles: Amazing Grace; The Apocalypse Code; Blood Moon; The Everlasting Hatred; Faith for Earth's Final Hour; The Final Battle; The Greatest Gift; The Late, Great Planet Earth; The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon; Planet Earth: The Final Chapter; The Rapture; The Road to Holocaust; Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth; The Shadow of the Apocalypse; There's a New World Coming; Vanished into Thin Air; Where Is America in Bible Prophecy?.
Chuck Missler - dispensationalist founder of the Koinonia House Bible-teaching ministry and popular end-time prophecy writer. He is also a co-sponsor of the Blue Letter Bible website and is now associated with the Calvary Chapel movement (though not to be confused with Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith). Highly skeptical of the US government, Missler holds to a conspiracy theory in which the powers that be are moving Earth toward a one-world government. Titles: Alien Encounters; Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages; The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Hidden Treasures in the Biblical Text; Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; The Magog Invasion; Prophecy 101; The Rapture; Return of the Nephilim.
J. Dwight Pentecost (b. 1915) - Dallas Seminary professor who carries on the teachings of Lewis Sperry Chafer and is one of the most outspoken opponents of Lordship salvation. Titles: Design for Discipleship; Designed to Be Like Him; The Divine Comforter; A Faith that Endures; A Harmony of the Words and Works of Jesus Christ; The Joy of Intimacy with God; Thy Kingdom Come; The Parables of Jesus; Prophecy for Today; Things to Come; Things Which Become Sound Doctrine; Your Adversary, the Devil.
John Phillips (b. 1927) - eloquent evangelical orator and Baptist professor at Moody Bible Institute for 25 years. Phillips is well known for his Scottish accent and the extensive alliteration in his sermon outlines. He sees Scofield's version of dispensationalism as essential to understanding the Bible, as he makes clear in his numerous expository commentaries. Titles: Bible Explorer's Guide; Exploring Genesis; Exploring Philippians; Exploring Revelation; Exploring the Psalms; People of the Bible. Not to be confused with Bible translator J. B. Phillips.
Charles Ryrie (b. 1928) - Baptist professor at Dallas Seminary and the primary advocate of dispensationalism in the late 20th century, especially through his Ryrie Study Bible. Greatly opposes both Craig Blaising's progressive dispensationalism and John MacArthur's Lordship salvation. Ryrie helped produce the NIV Bible version. Titles: Balancing the Christian Life; Basic Theology; Countdown to Armageddon; Dispensationalism; Object Lessons; So Great Salvation; Survey of Bible Doctrine.
John Walvoord (1910-2002) - long-time president of Dallas Theological Seminary from 1952 to 1986, largely responsible for the continuing influence of Lewis Sperry Chafer, and one of the leading scholarly writers on end-time prophecy. He was also on the Advisory Council for the ESV. Titles: Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East; Bible Knowledge Commentary (Ed., w/ Roy Zuck); The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation; The Coming Last Days Temple; Daniel: The Key to Prophetic Revelation; Every Prophecy of the Bible; The Final Drama; Jesus Christ Our Lord; Major Bible Prophecies; The Millennial Kingdom; The Nations, Israel, and the Church in Bible Prophecy; Prophecy in the New Millennium; The Prophecy Knowledge Handbook; The Rapture Question; The Revelation of Jesus Christ; Thy Kingdom Come; What We Believe.
Roy Zuck (b. 1932) - former professor at Dallas Seminary and editor of the journal Bibliotheca Sacra. Insists that the only truly faithful Bible interpreters are those who hold to a pretribulational rapture and other dispensational distinctives. His beliefs are largely in line with Ryrie's. Titles: Basic Bible InterpretationBible Knowledge Commentary (Ed., w/ John Walvoord); A Biblical Theology of the New Testament; A Biblical Theology of the Old Testament; Dictionary of the Occult and the New Age; Precious in His Sight; Rightly Divided (Ed.); Spirit-Filled Teaching; Teaching as Jesus Taught; Teaching as Paul Taught; Teaching with Spiritual Power; Understanding Christian Theology (w/ Charles Swindoll. He has also written a commentary on Job and edited the Vital Issues series.There may be others in this database whose dispensational convictions I am not aware of. See also the main section on dispensational authors.
For a statement of my beliefs, see my Declaration of Faith.
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