by Craig A. Blaising Blaising, Craig A. Th.D., Dallas Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Aberdeen. Professor of Systematic Theology, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas.
From a background of ministry in turn-of-the-century revivalism and teaching at Bible conferences, Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952) founded Dallas Theological Seminary and served as its first president and principal theologian. An author of several books on evangelism, prophecy, and the Christian life, Chafer is best known for his eight-volume Systematic Theology, which was the first dispensational, premillennial systematic theology. Although many works have helped spread the influence of dispensationalism, the institutional and theological efforts of Lewis Sperry Chafer have been foremost in establishing it as a viable feature of twentieth-century evangelical thought and ministry. (lagi…)