Although not giving a list of “essentials,” Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock offered a list of “common features” of dispensationalism in their 1993 book, Progressive Dispensationalism. These features included: (1) the authority of Scripture; (2) dispensations; (3) uniqueness of the church; (4) practical significance of the universal church; (5) significance of biblical prophecy; (6) futurist premillennialism; (7) imminent return of Christ; and (8) a national future for Israel.22
