Originally Posted by SolaScriptura

Erick -

No, pretribulational premillenialism is NOT a form of Liberation Theology.

The only way to identify a dispensational eschatology with Liberation Theology would be to so completely gut the latter of its meaning that all you'd really be left with is the name that you arbitrarily choose to keep.

Liberation Theology fundamentally redefines "sin" and "salvation" in a way that is completely contrary to any remotely legitimate biblical definition.

However flawed pretribulational premillenialism may be in terms of the position itself, the a priori theological commitments, and the hermeneutical methodology employed, Dispensationalism (of which their eschatology is simply a part) is NOT driven by a desire to escape the difficulties of life - after all, dispensationalists readily affirm that believers are persecuted and that gross injustices exist in the world... indeed they eagerly and faithfully recruit missionaries knowing full well the possibility of them losing their life. Do dispensationalists believe that God will graciously spare the Church from the difficulties of the tribulation period? Yes. But they view that act of sparing as a gracious promise of God to deliver them from the wiles of the devil and from God's own wrath. That is radically different from seeing sin as social injustice and "salvation" being the process whereby society becomes less and less unjust.