9780802879226

0802879225

9781467462204

"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.

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.

Dispensationalism > History of doctrines.