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Using the tenures of the school's five presidents as the backbone for his narrative, John D. Hannah reveals the tensions that DTS has experienced in its eighty-plus years of existence. Each successive president of DTS brought his own unique style and perceptions to the school, even as he dealt with the changing religious and cultural milieu that swirled around it. Hannah argues that, rather than being a monolithic institution, Dallas Theological Seminary is a unique blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, a place that defies easy categorization. --from publisher description
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Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism.An Uncommon Union, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran faculty member of DTS, provides a necessary corrective to such a simplistic assessment. Using the tenures of the school's five presidents as the backbone for his narrative, John D. Hannah reveals the tensions that DTS has experienced in its eighty-plus years of existence.Each successive president of DTS brought his own unique style and perceptions to the school, even as he dealt with the changing religious and cultural milieu that swirled around it. Hannah argues that, rather than being a monolithic institution, Dallas Theological Seminary is a unique blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, a place that defies easy categorization.A keenly insightful and thoughtful work, An Uncommon Union illuminates the path charted by the leaders of a prominent American seminary in a rapidly changing world. All readers interested in the history and future of evangelicalism, regardless of their theological persuasion, will benefit from this book. |
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Pages 400
Dimensions: Length: 9.3" Width: 6.52" Height: 1.27"
Weight: 1.45 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2009
Publisher Zondervan Publishing
Age 18
ISBN 0310237866
EAN 9780310237860
UPC 025986237868
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 | A fair and balanced approach... Oct 30, 2009 |
After numerous doctoral dissertations and extended overviews, Dr. John D. Hannah has now produced the definitive history of the founding and growth of the famous Dallas Theological Seminary. Irenic in both tone and style, Hannah provides readers with behind-the-scenes glimpses of the school's founder and first president, Lewis Sperry Chafer, as well as the school's four subsequent presidents. In fact, the role of the presidents ends up largely defining the direction the school has taken since its 1924 birth and Hannah (Ph.D, Univ. of Texas at Dallas), an accomplished historical theologian in his own right, uses the five different presidents, and the historical eras in which they serve, to move the book's narrative forward.
Especially helpful is the work's emphasis on dispensationalism and the manner in which that particular system of hermeneutics and theology has expressed itself at Dallas Seminary. Far from being a monolithic unit of thought, Hannah shows how the subtleties and nuances of this system of literal interpretation has served the school well for more than 80 years.
This clear work accurately situates Dallas Seminary not only in its historical context (1924 - the present) but also in its religious context; the broader conservative, evangelical tradition. Further, Hannah is to be commended for his historical accuracy as highlighted by voluminous footnoting and fact-checking. He tips his hand at the outset by noting, "errors of fact, prejudice, ignorance, and judgment can be attributed to no one but myself." This hopeful tone continues throughout and helps the book from becoming overtly polemical. This reviewer looks forward to seeing additional religious-historical overviews from the pen of Dr. Hannah documenting similar evangelical institutions. | | | Write your own review about Uncommon Union
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