Progressive revelation (Christianity)
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Progressive revelation is the doctrine in Christianity that the sections of the Bible that were written later contain a fuller revelation of God than the earlier sections.[citation needed] "Progressive revelation does not mean to say that the Old Testament is somehow less true than the New Testament. The progress was not from untruth to truth – it was from less information to more full information."[1]
For instance, the theologian Charles Hodge wrote:
The progressive character of divine revelation is recognized in relation to all the great doctrines of the Bible... What at first is only obscurely intimated is gradually unfolded in subsequent parts of the sacred volume, until the truth is revealed in its fulness.[2]
See also
[edit]- Biblical inspiration
- Christian views on the Old Covenant
- Continuous revelation
- Deposit of faith
- Direct revelation
- Dispensationalism
- General revelation
- Progressive revelation (Bahá'í)
- Special revelation
- Supersessionism
- Development of doctrine
References
[edit]- ^ Don Stewart What Is Progressive Revelation?
- ^ Hodge, Charles (2003), Systematic Theology, vol. 1, Peabody: Hendrickson, p. 446, ISBN 1-56563-459-4 (also available as Hodge, Gross, Edward N (ed.), Systematic Theology (abridged ed.), ISBN 0-87552-224-6)
Further reading
[edit]- Barry, Eldr, Progressive revelation: The unfolding of God's revelation (PDF).
- Progressive revelation, An introduction, Religious tolerance.
- What is Progressive Revelation
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