Theological Positions
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PREMILLENIAL
(Historic premillennial is usually covenant, post-tribulation. Dispensational premillennial is generally pre-tribulation.)| Alford, Henry Amerding, C. A. Anderson, Robert Beasley-Murray, G. R. Bengel, _____ Blackstone, William E. Bonar, A.A. Bowman, John (Historic) Chafer, Lewis Sperry Culver, Robert D. Darby, John Nelson DeHaan, Martin R. Ellicott, C.J. English, Eugene Schuyler Erickson, Millard (Historic) Fausset, A. R. Feinberg, Charles L. Fuller, Daniel Payton (Historic) Gaebelein, A. C. Gill, John Goodwin, Thomas Grudem, Wayne Hiebert, Davis Edmond Hoyt, Herman A. (Disp.) Ironside, H. A. Jennins, Frederick C. Jeremiah, David Keach, Benjamin Kromminga, D. H. Ladd, George E. (Historic) Lange, John Lightfoot, J.B. | Lillie, (John?) Luck, G. Coleman MacArthur, John MacIntosh, C.H. Mauro, Philip (Historic) Mayhue, Richard McClain, Alva (Disp.) Meyer, F.B. Morgan, George Campbel Mounce, Robert Newell, William Reed Ottman, Ford C. Payne, J. Barton (Historic) Piper, John Ross, James Robert (Historic) Ryle, J.C. Ryrie, Charles (Disp.) Seiss, Joseph A. Smith, Jacob B. Smith, Wilbur M. Steir. _____ Stevens, W. C. Stifler, James M. Strombeck, J. F. Tatford, Frederick A. Tenney, Merrill C. Tregelles, Samuel P. Unger, Merril Walvoord, John (Disp.) Westcott, B.F. Wiley, H. Orton |
AMILLENNIAL
(Amillennials are usually covenant)| Adams, Jay Edward Allis, Oswald T. Augustine Bass, Clarence B. Beckwith, Isbon T. Bennett, T. Miles Berkof, Louis Berkouwer, G. C. Bowman, John Wick Brown, David Calvin, John Charles, Robert H. Colclasure, Chuck Ellison, Henry L. Farrar, Fredric W. Ferguson, Sinclair Foster, Richard J. Gerstner, John Gifford, Edwin H. Hamilton, Floyd E. Hendricksen, William Hoekema, Anthony A. Hoeksema, Herman Kik, Jacob Marcellus | Laetsch, Theodore F. K. Lenski, Richard Leopold, Herbert C. Luther, Martin Machen, John Gresham Mauro, Philip Morgan, George Campbell Morris, Leon Pink, A. W. Pusey, Edward B. Ridderbos, Herman Riddlebarger, Kim Sproul, R.C. Summers, Ray Swete, Hanry Barclay Van Til, Cornelius Vos, Gerhardus Waltke, Bruce (formerly Disp.) Warfield, B. B. Young, Edward J. |
POSTMILLENNIAL
| Alexander, Archibald Alexander, Joseph A. Barnes, Albert Boettner, Loraine Brown, David Dabney, R. L. Dabney, Robert T. Edward, Jonathan Fairbairn, Patrick Hodge, A. A. | Hodge, Charles Marcellus, K. K. J. Murray, John North, Gary Shedd, W. G. T. Snowden, James H. Strong, Austustus H. Warfield, Benjamin B. |
DISPENSATIONAL
(usually premillennial)| Barnhouse, Donald Grey Brooks, James H. Chafer, Lewis Sperry Darby, John Nelson English, E. Schuyler Feinberg, Charles L. Gaebelein, Arno C. Gaebelein, Frank Graves, J. R. Hoyt, Herman Ironside, H. A. Kelly, William MacArthur, John Mackintosh, C. H. Mason, Clarence E. | Mayhue, Richard McClain, Alva J. Pache, Rene Pentecost, J. Dwight Pettingill, William Ryrie, Charles Sauer, Erich Scofield, C. I. Scroggie, W. Graham Walvoord, John F. |
ULTRA-DISPENSATIONAL
(Church began with Paul not at Pentecost)| Baker, Charles F. Berean Bible Society Bullinger, Ethelbert W. Gelesnoff, Vladimir Grace Bible College (Grand Rapids) Grace Gospel Fellowship Knoch, A.E. | McGee, J. Vernon O'Hair, J.C. Sellers, Otis Q. Stam, Cornelius R. Welch, Charles H. Worldwide Grace Testimony (Grace Mission) |
COVENANT
| Allis, O. T. Bass, Clarence B. Bear, James Berkof, Louis Carson, Herbert Cotton, John Fuller, Daniel Paxton Gerstner, John Goodwin, Thomas Hendricksen, William Hodge, A. A. Hodge, Charles Ladd, George Eldon | Lincoln, C. Fred Mauro, Philip Murray, John Orr, James Owen, john Payne, J. Barton Poythress, Vern Robertson, O. Palmer Sproul, R. C. Van Gemeren, Willem Van Til, Cornelius |
PRE-TRIBULATIONAL
| Harrison, Norman B. Hogg, Charles F. Stanton, Gerald B. Theissen, Henry C. Vine, Howard Frederick |
POST-TRIBULATIONAL
| Erickson, Millard Ladd, G. E. Lang, George H. Tenney, Merrill C. |
MID-TRIBULATIONAL
| Peters, George N. H. |
PROGRESSIVE DISPENSATIONAL
(Similar to covenant, premillennial)| Blaising, Craig A. Bock, Darrel L. Saucy, Robert L. Turner, David |
RECONSTRUCTIONIST/THEONOMIST
(Generally postmillennial)| Bahnsen, Greg Chilton, David North,, Gary Rushdooney, Rousas |
CALVINIST / REFORMED
| Adams, Jay Edward Aguinas, Thomas Alexander, J. A. St. Augustine Bavinck, Herman Beeke, Joel Berkhof, Hendrikus Bloesch, Donald Boetner, Loraine Boice, James Bridges, Jerry Buswell, J. O. Calvin, John Carson, Donald A. Dabney, Robert L. Dever, Mark Duncan, J. Ligon Edwards, Jonathan Ferguson, Sinclair Filson, Floyd Vivian Frame, John Hacket, Horacia Haldane, Robert Haykin, Michel Hendricksen, William Hodge, A. A. Hodge, Charles Horton, Michael Hughes, Philip Johnson, Phil Jones, _______ Keller, Timothy Kik, Jaboc Marcellus Lawson, Steve Lecerf, Auguste Luther, Martin MacArthur, John | Malone, Fred Marcel, Pierre Martin, Albert Mohler, Albert Moore, Thomas V. Moule, H.C.G. Murray, Andrew Murray, John Nicole, Roger Orr, James Packer, J. I. Pieters, Albertus Pipa, Joseph A. Piper, John Robertson, O. Palmer Rushdooney, R. J. Ryken, Philip Graham Ryle, J. C. Schaeffer, Francis Sproul, R. C. Steele, David N. Storms, C. Samuel Strombeck, J. F. Strong, A. H. Thiessen, Henry Clarence Thomas, Curtis C. Van Til, Cornelius Ware, Bruce Warfield, B. B. Watson, Thomas Well, David White, James Whitney, Donald Wilson, Jeffrey B. |
ARMINIAN
| Abraham, William J. Andrews, Herbert T. Basinger, David Basinger, Randall G. Carter, Charles W. Cottrell, Jack W. Craig, William L. Earle, Ralph Evans, C. Stephen Findlay, George G. Finney, Charles Forester, Roger T. Fritz, Guy Graham, Billy Headlan, Arthur Lewis, C. S. MacDonald, William G. Mantey, Julius R. Marshall, I. Howard | Marston, V. Paul Melanchthan, Philip Miethe, Terry L. Miley, John Montgomery, John Warwick Osborne, Grant R. Pinnock, Clark Reichenbach, Bruce R. Rice, Richard Sanday, William Sanders, John E. Shank, Robert L. Simpson, Albert B. Taylor, Vincent Turner, George Allen Walls, Jerry L. Wesley, John Wiley, H. Orton |
ANTINOMIANISM
| Agricola, Johannes Brearley, Roger Crisp, Tobias Eaton, John Hutchinson, Anne Saltmarsh, John, Traske, John Towne, Robert |
BLACK THEOLOGY
| Cleage, Jr., Albert B. Cone, James Roberts, Deotis |
CHARISMATIC
| Benett, Dennis Braham, William Bredesen, Harald Christensen, Larry Coe, Jack duPlessis, David Harper, Michael C. | Irwin, David Osborne, Tommy Lee Roberts, Oral Smith, Chuck Wilkerson, David |
CREATION SPIRITUALITY
| Matthew Fox (Catholic) |
EVANGELICAL FEMINISTS
| Bilezikian, Gilbert Gundry, Patricia Hardesty, Nancy Jewett, Paul Mollenkott, Virginia Scanzoni, Letha Spencer, Aida Bensancon Williams, Dan |
HOPE THEOLOGY
| Metz, Johanes (Catholic) Mollmann, Jurgen (Reformed) Pannenberg, Wolfhart (Lutheran) |
LIBERATION THEOLOGY
| Boff, Leonardo Gutierrez, Gustavo Miguez-Bonino, Jose |
LUTHERAN THEOLOGY
| Althaus, Paul Bornkamm, Heinrich Chemnitz, Martin Forde, Gerhard O. Gerhard, Johann Jensen, Robert Kolb, Robert Lohse, Bernhard Luther, Martin | Maier, Paul L. Melanchthon, Philip Montgomery, John W. Pieper, Franz Preus, Robert Sasse, Hermann Veith Gene Edward Walter, C. F. W. Wengert, Timothy |
MERCERSBURG THEOLOGY
| Nevin, John Williamson Schaff, Philip |
NEO-LIBERALISM
| Bultmann, Rudolf Coffin, Henry S. Gilkey, Langdon Van Dusen, H.P Schleiermacher, Fredrich Fosdick, Harry E. Ogden, Schuber Tielhard de Chardin, Pierre Tillich, Paul Tracy, David (Catholic) |
NEO-ORTHODOXY
| Barth, Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bunner, Emil Niebuhr, Reinhold |
NEW COVENANT THEOLOGY
| Wells, Tom Zaspel, Fred Lehrer, Steve Reisinger, John |
PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY
| Hayford, Jack Mason, Charles H. McPherson, Amy Semple |
PIETISM
| Arndt, Johann Francke, August Hermann Spener, Philipp Jakob Zinzerdorf, Count Von |
PROCESS THEOLOGY
| Hartshorne, Charles Whitehead, Alfred North |
PROSPERITY THEOLOGY
| Capps, Charles Cho, Paul Copeland, Kenneth Hayes, Narvelle Hagin, Kenneth Kenyon, Essek William Osteen, John Price, Frederick K. C. Savelle, Jerry |
PURITAN THEOLOGY
| Ames, William Baxter, Richard Bolton, Robert Bridge, William, Brooks, Thomas Burroughes, Jeremiah Bunyan, John Charnock, Stephen Clarkson, David 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 |
SCHOLASTICISM
| Abelard, Peter Aquinas, Thomas Bonaventure Ockham, William of |
SECULAR THEOLOGY
"God is Dead"| Altizer, Thomas Cox, Harvey Hamilton, William Robinson, John A. T. Rubenstein, Richard L. (Jewish Rabbi) Vahanian, Gabriel |
SELF-ESTEEM THEOLOGY / POSSIBILITY THINKING
| Peale, Norman Vincent Schuller, Robert |
SOCIAL GOSPEL
| Ely, Richard T. Gladden, Washington Rauschenbusch, Walter |
THIRD WAVE
| Wagner, C. Peter Wimber, John |
WESLEYAN THEOLOGY
| Allen, Richard Asbury, Francis Coke, Albert C. Varick, James Wesley, Charles Wesley, John |