ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is dedicated to my wife Diane, whom I thank for her encouragement and support in writing this book. To her this book is dedicated.

Westminster Theological Seminary has aided me in my research by granting a sabbatical leave in the fall of 1983. I have also received constructive advice from Dr. Bruce Waltke and from many Westminster Seminary students with backgrounds in or concerns for dispensationalism.

I am grateful for the many constructive suggestions that I have received from dispensationalists and for the hospitality that I received from the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary during my study there. I am most grateful that in our day many dispensationalists and covenant theologians alike are showing themselves willing to lay aside past biases and acknowledge some of the insights that exist on the other side.