Theologia et Vita

Beloved Enemies Israel’s Irrevocable Calling between Dispensationalism and Progressive Covenantalism J. Neil Daniels Abstract Romans 11:28 predicates enmity and belovedness of the same people at the same moment, and the correlative μέν … δέ makes that simultaneity a grammatical datum rather than a theological inference. This essay builds the case for a future for national Israel on that verse and on its ground in 11:29, then locates the resulting position between revised dispensationalism and progressive covenantalism. It concedes that ὁ Ἰσραὴλ τοῦ θεοῦ in Galatians 6:16 most probably denotes the church, argues that the concession costs the position nothing, and declines the dispensational sine qua non that treats the Israel-church distinction as a premise rather than a consequence. The christological grounding is developed from the union of Davidic and divine sonship in the incarnate Son: promise escalates in Christ without evaporating. Objections drawn from Romans 9:6, from...