The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism (1)

November 2008 17 The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism (1) James A. Laning As is quite well known, dispensationalists glory in their “literal” method of interpreting Scripture. Repeatedly they claim that their entire eschatological system arises out of their hermeneutical method. Anyone, they say, who opens the Bible and believes what it literally says will become a dispensationalist. In their judgment, all the non- dispensationalists err, in one way or another, because they deviate from a...