The Gospel of the Kingdom: An Examination of Dispensationalism

by Philip Mauro

Dispensationalism is perhaps best known for its distinctive doctrines of a “secret rapture” of the Church, a future “great Tribulation” over which will preside an evil world leader known as the “Antichrist,” and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem along with the reinstitution of the Old Testament sacrificial system under a restored Levitical priesthood. However, the most pernicious errors of this system are not eschatological, but soteriological. As this book demonstrates, Dispensationalism, as popularized in the early 1900s by C.I. Scofield in his Reference Bible, and believed today by a large segment of the professing Evangelical Church in America, is a radical departure from the historic Christian understanding of the Kingdom and leads to an undermining of the biblical Gospel itself.

Genres: Religion, Christianity

258 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2010

Reviews

[Amy]

Recommended by Grandma

[John Barbour · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good book by Philip Mauro. The other one was The Hope of Israel. This book shows the importance of the Kingdom of God in Christian thinking and demonstrates how Dispensationalism have clouded this by puting it off into the future and making unbiblical distinctions between the Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God and by creating artificial Dispensations ( time periods).

[Perry Cunningham · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish more Christians would read and heed

Mauro writes with great clarity as he dismantles the man-made creed of dispensationalism. Unfortunately, his optimistic view that dispensationalism would fail in the 20th century has not come to pass. It still binds the faith and minds of many in a false tradition.

[Ronnie Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid

I found this obscure book in a bibliography and citations in a more recent work on Amillennialism and could not be happier with the discovery. This refutation of dispensationalism was written in the early 20th century when the faulty eschatology was just beginning to sink its roots into Americas Protestant churches. Now it is a mainstream core doctrine of the majority of evangelical churches in the United States. It is great to know that there were those voices of reason sounding the trumpet of warning then who helped to maintain a proper historical narrative and biblically sound eschatology. You can get this work on Kindle for a couple bucks and will find it to be a real gem!

[Mel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a critique on dispensationalism, which is helpful. But the author has his own biases due to a hellenistic mindset and fails to understand the Hebrew context and Hebrew mindset of the scriptures.