Theologians that changed their mind on eschatology

There is nothing surprising about a student of the Bible refining his interpretations while reaching a deeper understanding of the Word of God over time. Yet sometimes a more radical change of thought has occurred in men that once adhered to a certain view of interpretation, but later on became convinced that a rather different view was true.

George Campbell Morgan (1863 – 1945)

Morgan was a British evangelist, preacher, Bible teacher and prolific author. For most of his life Morgan taught the dispensational view on Israel and the Jews, but towards the end of this life he changed his views to Covenant Theology.

He wrote this in a letter in 1943: “I am quite convinced that all the promises made to Israel are found, are finding and will find their perfect fulfillment in the church. It is true that in time past, in my expositions, I gave a definite place to Israel in the purposes of God. I have now come to the conviction, as I have just said, that it is the new and spiritual Israel that is intended.” (Letter to Rev. H. F. Wright, New Brunswick, Victoria) (from Hughes, Archibald (1958). A New Heaven and a New Earth. Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Press.)