The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation
Overview
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.
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- Illuminates how dispensationalism shaped Anglo-American evangelicalism
- Locates dispensationalism’s origin in the writings of the nineteenth-century Protestant John Nelson Darby
- Provides a must-read for students and scholars of American religion
- Preface
- Introduction
- Across an Ocean
- American Mission Field
- Border-State Conversions
- Numbers and Structures
- Revival
- The Premillennial Complex
- Sprawl
- Standard Text
- The “World System” and War
- Factions
- Scholastic Dispensationalism
- The Great Rift
- Dispensational Politics
- Pop-Dispensationalism
- The Great Rupture
- The “Humanist Tribulation”
- Saturation and Its Limits
- Collapse
- Surveying the Aftermath
- Epilogue: Maranatha
Part I: The New Premillennialists, 1830–1900
Part II: The Dispensationalists, 1900–1960
Part III: The Pop-Dispensationalists, 1960–2020
- Title: The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation
- Author: Daniel Hummel
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Pages: 400
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:RSFLLDSPSHPDNTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-01T17:52:00Z
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Tom Franseen
1/23/2023
more dribble from those who don't dig deep enough... Darby was NOT the first. Truth is there for those who don't have an agenda and/or an axe to grind - in their haste to disprove their foes, these people rush to conclusions and mislead many! These people are guilty of logical dishonesty. (I may buy it anyway so I can quote and comment on his poor research and subsequent poor conclusions) Here is one point for you to consider. Let's say that everyone agreed that the earth was round from the 1st century on. No debate, no dispute. Then suddenly in the 1800's, someone sensationalizes the concept, and 'some' people think, 'wow! what an amazing thing! No one has ever written about this before!' (like it is a new thing, which it is not). And so you would not expect, in such a scenario, to find much if any writings on the subject if everyone agreed on it since the 1st century. In the case of Dispensationalism, Darby sensationalized it - that's it. It goes back much further than that. These people are just too lazy to dig to find the evidence. And while these people would love for that to be the case, it proves nothing, just that Darby sensationalized it. Period. Just because someone sensationalizes something is NO proof that that concept is invalid or disproven. See the illogic?