Part I. The new premillennialists, 1830-1900 -- Across an ocean -- American mission field -- Border-state conversions -- Numbers and structures -- Revival -- The premillennial complex -- Part II. The dispensationalists, 1900-1960 -- Sprawl -- Standard text -- The "world system" and war -- Factions -- Scholastic dispensationalism -- The great rift -- Dispensational politics -- Part III. The pop dispensationalists, 1960-2020 -- Pop dispensationalism -- The great rupture -- The "humanist tribulation" -- Saturation and its limits -- Collapse -- Surveying the aftermath -- Epilogue: Maranatha.
Summary:
"The history of dispensationalism as an institutional, cultural, and theological force in evangelicalism"-- Provided by publisher. "A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe apocalyptic movement, shaped Anglo-American evangelicalism and the larger American cultural imagination. Hummel locates dispensationalism's origin in the writings of the nineteenth-century Protestant John Nelson Darby, who established many of the hallmarks of the theology, such as premillennialism and belief in the rapture. Though it consistently faced criticism, dispensationalism held populist, and briefly scholarly, appeal-visible in everything from turn-of-the-century revivalism to apocalyptic bestsellers of the 1970s to current internet conspiracy theories. Measured and irenic, Hummel objectively evaluates evangelicalism's most resilient (and contentious) popular theology. As the first comprehensive intellectual-cultural history of its kind, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism is a must-read for students and scholars of American religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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