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E. W. Bullinger

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Ethelbert William Bullinger (December 15, 1837 - June 6, 1913) was a Vicar of the Church of England,
Biblical scholar, and dispensationalist
theologian.

Contents

1 Life and Work

2 Theology

3 Further reading

4 External links

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Life and Work

Born in Canterbury, England, his
family traced its lineage back to the noted Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger
(1504-1557). He was educated at King's
College, London, and gained recognition in the field of Biblical languages.

E.W. Bullinger was noted broadly for three works: A Critical Lexicon and
Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament (1877); for his ground-breaking and
exhaustive work on Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (1898); and as the primary editor of
The Companion Bible (published in 6 parts, beginning in 1909; the entire annotated Bible
was published posthumously in 1922). These works and many others
remain in print (2004).

In 1881, four
years after the publication of the Lexicon and Concordance, Archibald Campbell
Tait, Archbishop of
Canterbury conferred upon Bullinger a Doctor of Divinity degree, citing
Bullinger's "eminent service in the Church in the department of Biblical
criticism."

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Theology

Bullinger's theology was extreme dispensationalism on
which he wrote numerous articles which appeared in his Monthly Journal Things
to Come. His name has become virtually synonymous with Ultra-dispensationalism.

He described dispensations as divine "administrations" or
"arrangements" wherein God deals at distinct time periods and with distinct
groups of people "on distinct principles, and the doctrine relating to each must
be kept distinct." He emphasizes that "Nothing but confusion can arise from
reading into one dispensation that which relates to another." {Companion
Bible, Appendix 181}

The term hyper- or ultradispensational refers to the relatively
late date ascribed to the beginning of the current dispensation and as well,
perhaps, to the great emphasis believers place on the concept. Bullinger places
the beginning of "the church" (the "Body of Christ") not at Pentecost but at a point in Paul's ministry after
his arrival at Rome
(as described in Acts, chapter 28) and just before
he is believed to have written the Epistle to the
Ephesians. The particular significance of Ephesians is that it reveals the
"great mystery", that "the Gentiles [would] be joint-heirs [with the Jews], and
a joint-body and (joint) partakers of the promise in Christ through the gospel".
In addition it makes clear that this is an ancient secret, long part of God's
plan, but only then newly (i.e., very recently, in Bullinger's opinion)
revealed. {Companion Bible, Appendix 193}

Perhaps one of the more interesting aspects of this doctrine is that it
apparently has implications for the applicability of the majority of New
Testament scripture (the Gospels and the earlier, "Acts
period" Epistles) to the church, since
those writings consist of material which is considered to have been addressed to
the people of the previous dispensation (i.e., "'earthly' or ethnic
Israel").

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Further reading

E.W. Bullinger: A Biography, Juanita S. Carey (1988) ISBN
0825423724

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External links

E. W. Bullinger
Books

Appendices and other notes from the
Companion Bible (substantial amount of material but not complete as of 17
Aug., 2005)

The Companion Bible
Online (work in progress)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Bullinger"

Categories:
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| 1837 births
| 1913
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