The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation

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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.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781467462204
Related ISBNs:
9780802879226
Publisher:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Copyrighted By:
Daniel G. Hummel
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government
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Foreword by:
Mark A. Noll

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