James Luther Adams described charts of dispensationalists many times in his liberal theological writing — his father was a fundamentalist Baptist who then joined the Plymouth Brethren — and every now and then you’ll see him look for ways to adopt certain features of dispensationalist thinking for liberal ends. Never quite caught on, but having grown up with the Mormon variety of dispensational thinking, I found Adams’s approach familiar and intriguing, even if it never seemed natural to the Unitarians he joined as a young adult.
James Luther Adams described charts of dispensationalists many times in his liberal theological writing — his father was a fundamentalist Baptist who then joined the Plymouth Brethren — and every now and then you’ll see him look for ways to adopt certain features of dispensationalist thinking for liberal ends. Never quite caught on, but having grown up with the Mormon variety of dispensational thinking, I found Adams’s approach familiar and intriguing, even if it never seemed natural to the Unitarians he joined as a young adult.
Maybe that’s why I’m still a charter myself. Hmm…