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Church Age

Church Age proper noun: the period or dispensation of human history, usually understood as ongoing in the present day, that begins with events in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles (Pentecost) and concludes at the beginning of the end times (the Rapture; the start of the Tribulation).

Proper noun

the Church Age

  1. (under dispensationalism) The period or dispensation of human history, usually understood as ongoing in the present day, that begins with events in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles (Pentecost) and concludes at the beginning of the end times (the Rapture; the start of the Tribulation).
    • The New Testament Church is a parenthetical institution designed to fill the gap between the ancient kingdom of Israel and a more glorious future kingdom of the same order.¹⁰ The primary mission of the Church is not to evangelize the world, but simply to take out from among the Gentiles a limited...1957, Jesse Wilson Hodges, “A General View of Dispensationalism”, in Christ's Kingdom and Coming with an Analysis of Dispensationalism (Religion), Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co....
    • Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists. They offered a systemic view of history in which biblical prophecies were thought to refer to real historical events.[…]They regarded the present era—the Church age—as a sort of parentheses and insisted, contra...2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2020

Examples of Church Age in a sentence

  • Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age,” a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.2013 December 17, “US doomsday minister Harold Camping dead at 92”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023:
  • But in the Church Age, He is working with the church, with the mystery of the Old Testament.2023 August 23, Daniel Hummel, 18:55 from the start, in ‘The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism’ — A Conversation with Daniel Hummel...

Questions about Church Age

What does Church Age mean?
Church Age means the period or dispensation of human history, usually understood as ongoing in the present day, that begins with events in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles (Pentecost) and concludes at the beginning of the end times (the Rapture; the start of the Tribulation).
How do you use Church Age in a sentence?
Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age,” a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.
What part of speech is Church Age?
Church Age is a proper noun.

Words near Church Age in the dictionary

  1. church
  2. church acre
  3. church acres
  4. church affiliation
  5. church affiliations
  6. Church Age
  7. church bell
  8. church bells
  9. Church Brampton
  10. Church Broughton
  11. Church Cay

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