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In my unpredjudiced research for truth, Dr. Chafer does appear to be aware of the Reformation/Revisor issue to some degree.
Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer Vol. 4, Page 36:
The clear recognition of that which, through divine grace, the Church is, of the supreme place she occupies as the Body of Christ, and of the glory and exaltation which awaits her as the Bride of the Lamb, is indispensable if a worthy perspective of God’s plan and purpose is to be gained. The all but universal disregard on the part of theologians for the Pauline revelation respecting the Church has wrought confusion and damage to an immeasurable degree. Two factors serve as paramount causes of this deplorable neglect, namely, (a) the Reformation did not recover this truth as formerly it was held by the early church, and (b) the attitude of the theologians, being bound and confined within the limitations of Reformation truth, has been that of avoiding what to them seems new. No theology would be complete, even as viewed by the Reformers, that did not exalt the first Pauline revelation of the gospel. However, it is as true, in the light of the Scriptures, that no theology is complete that does not recognize and elevate to its transcendent place the second Pauline revelation of the Church. The two disclosures are interdependent and therefore inseparable to a large degree. Together they form that larger body of truth which the Apostle termed “my gospel.”
While there were occasional references to the Church universal in post-Reformation theological literature, it was not until the middle of the last century that this extensive and important body of teaching was wrought into a doctrinal declaration. It was given to J. N. Darby of England to achieve this distinctive ministry. From the teachings of Darby and his associates what is known as the Brethren movement sprang; and these highly trained men have produced an expository literature covering the entire Sacred Text which is not only orthodox and free from misconceptions and disproportionate emphasis, but essays to interpret faithfully the entire field of Biblical doctrine—that which theology confined to the Reformation has failed to do. At this same time, other men in America and foreign countries were awakening to the fact that the Bible presents a much larger range of doctrine than that released by the Reformers, and, as a result, a widespread Bible exposition movement has developed which incorporated all that the Reformation restored and very much more. There is, then, a division at the present time in the ranks of orthodox men. On the one hand, there are those who, being trained to recognize no more than that which entered into Reformation theology, are restricted in their doctrinal viewpoint and who look upon added truth as a departure from standard ideas and therefore dangerous. On the other hand, there are those who, though as jealous to preserve the purity of the divine revelation, are constructing an unabridged system of theology, and finding the way into the full-orbed harmony of truth and into the limitless field of Biblical doctrine.Scofield followed Darby. Here's an example from JSTOR: Dispensationalism in America, Its Rise and Development by C. Norman Kraus Church History, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Mar., 1960), pp. 111-113:
The origin of this modern dispensationalism Kraus locates in the teachings of J. N. Darby, the English founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Darby, almost unknown to church historians, has exerted a profound influence outside his own denomination, for it was his eschatology and (especially) his ecclesiology which gave such a characteristic stamp to dispensationalism, premillennialism, and eventually fundamentalism. Darby visited North America frequently, travelling to the U.S. three times in the 1870's. He and his disciples considered themselves missionaries, but they evangelized from the pulpits of influential evangelical churches. Their message was directed more to puzzled Christians than unbelievers.....Kraus approached this study (acccording to the dust jacket) in order to combat dispensationalism's disquieting invasion of his own denomination. He traces its history in order to refute its theology. In this, I feel, he failed to see the real significance of the movement. In tracing the origin of dispensationalism, Kraus has uncovered the seed plot of fundamentalism. The theology of fundamentalism is dispensationalism, its Bible, the Scofield Referenice Bible. Ever since the publication of Stewart G. Cole's History of Fundamientalism, historians have vaguely referred to the premillennial conferences of the late nineteenth century as fundamentalism's point of origin. My own study of those conferences, however, left me puzzled. Although fundamentalists were obviously running the conferences in 1914 and 1918, men of a basically different stamp were in charge in 1878. In tracing the rise of dispensationalism through J. N. Darby, Kraus has put his finger on the real founding father of fundamentalism.Chafer followed Scofield. (As I have already shown examples).
So far I have found this in relation to
Burgon and
Darby:
Miracle and Mission By James A. Kelhoffer p.17 subscript 63.
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Miracle and Mission By James A. Kelhoffer p.17 subscript 63:
"63 The last twelve verses of the Gospel according to S. Mark vindicated against recent critical objectors and established, (Oxford and London: James Parker, 1871: reprinted , Ann Arbor, MI: Associated Publishers and Authors, Inc, 1959) Because the page numeration is different in the first (1871) and reprinted (1959) versions, the page numbers cited here refer to the original 1871 edition. Before Burgon, proponents for the Textus Receptus included F. H. A. Scrivener, J. N. Darby and F. C. Cook...In
Miracle and Mission By James A. Kelhoffer p.17 subscript 63(above) It references the two following books by
Burgon:
The last twelve verses of the Gospel according to S. Mark vindicated against recent critical objectors and established, by John William Burgon
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The last twelve verses of the Gospel according to S. Markby John William Burgon
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Before Burgon, proponents for the Textus Receptus included F. H. A. Scrivener, J. N. Darby and F. C. Cook...
Test all things.
Truthtesty
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