"Progressive Revelation" is one of those concepts I don't believe I ever heard until I became a member of a Reformed Church. However, I think most Christians probably believe it, to at least some extent, even if they don't ever use the term or talk about it. The concept of "progressive revelation" is that God has revealed more and more things
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View 1: Progressive revelation ends with the New Testament. There's nothing more we know now (as far as the revealed word of God) than the apostles did by the end of the first century.
View 2: Special revelation ends with the New Testament, but our understanding of how it all fits together has progressed (e.g., the Trinity, the Reformation, etc.)
View 3: Special revelation continues after the New Testament. Either via modern prophets (e.g., some forms of pentacostalism) or via Church Infallibility (e.g., Roman Catholicism ( ... )
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