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Ryrie was born to John Alexander and Elizabeth Caldwell Ryrie [3] in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alton, Illinois.His paternal grandfather, John Alexander Ryrie Sr. (1827-1904), served as a correspondent in the late 1870's of the earliest known Plymouth Brethren meeting in the United States, which was started in Alton by Scottish settlers in 1849. [4]
A decade later, Ryrie published Dispensationalism Today (1965), which has become the primary introduction to dispensational theology. [ 5 ] Furthering the rift with covenant theology, Ryrie wrote in Bibliotheca Sacra in 1957 that dispensationalism is "the only valid system of Biblical interpretation".
By contrast, Charles Ryrie, though being a free grace theologian, believed that faith naturally leads into good works, interpreting James to refer to eternal salvation. Ryrie still held in opposition to Lordship salvation that the believer may not always have fruit nor the fruit be necessarily outwardly evident.
Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) is an evangelical theological seminary in Dallas, Texas.It is known for popularizing the theological system of dispensationalism.DTS has campuses in Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C., as well as extension sites in Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Northwest Arkansas, Europe, and Guatemala, and a multilingual online education program.
Lewis Sperry Chafer (February 27, 1871 – August 22, 1952) was an American theologian.He co-founded Dallas Theological Seminary with his older brother Rollin Thomas Chafer [1] (1868-1940), served as its first president, and was an influential proponent of Christian Dispensationalism in the early 20th century.
Ryrie, Charles C. The Basis of the Premillennial Faith. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1953. ISBN 1-59387-011-6. This is a small introduction and defense of premillennialism from a dispensational perspective. Underwood, Grant. (1999) [1993]. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252068263
Dispensationalism is a theological system in which history is divided into multiple ages or "dispensations" in which God acts with humanity in different ways. It generally adheres to the premillennial interpretation of Chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation.
Hyperdispensationalism, also referred to as Mid-Acts Dispensationalism, [1] [2] is a Protestant conservative evangelical movement that values biblical inerrancy and a literal hermeneutic. It holds that there was a Church during the period of the Acts that is not the Church today, and that today's Church began when the book of Acts was closed.