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'''Dispensationalism''' is an interpretation of the Bible first developed by British theologian [[John Nelson Darby]] (1800–82).
[[File:End-time.jpg|thumb|550px|Dispensationalist interpretation of [[End Times]]]]
Dispensationalism came to dominate [[Premillennialism]] by 1900, that is the belief that the Bible teaches that Christ will return before setting up his millennial kingdom. Dispensationalism divides up human history into a series of dispensations. Darby identified two distinct divine plans, one for an "earthly" people (Israel) and the other for a "heavenly" people (the Christian church). One key to this entire prophecy is the refounding of Israel as a nation state in Palestine.
Sandeen (1967) finds the roots of [[Fundamentalism]] in an alliance of two 19th-century theologies, Dispensationalism derived from the Plymouth Brethren movement and the ministry of [[John Nelson Darby]]. Believers in Dispensationalism held a view of the church as a small group separate from major ecclesiastical institutions and primarily a spiritual fellowship. Their emphasis on Biblical literalism and their view of history as divided into seven dispensations had considerable influence in American Calvinistic denominations in the latter part of the century. The [[Princeton Theology]] was a unique system constructed at Princeton Seminary by Archibald Alexander and [[Charles Hodge]]. It emphasized a pre-Kantian rationalistic methodology and Biblical inerrancy.
The two movements with certain similarities and a common foe in Modernism were drawn together in informal cooperation in a series of International Prophetic Conferences beginning in 1878.
Premillennialism and Biblical inspiration provided the themes for the alliance. The Fundamentals, a series of 12 pamphlets published from 1910 to 1915, was supported by Lyman Stewart, a Presbyterian layman and a follower of Dispensationalism.
[[Fundamentalism]] at the turn of the century was a religious movement of great vitality with definable antecedents in theological innovations of the 19th century and centered in the urban North. In the religious conflict of the 1920s Fundamentalists split often along dispensational and Princeton lines.
==Further reading==
* Coker, Joe L. "Exploring the Roots of the Dispensationalist /Princetonian 'Alliance': Charles Hodge And John Nelson Darby on Eschatology and Interpretation of Scripture." ''Fides et Historia'' 1998 30(1): 41-56. 0884-5379
* Sandeen, Ernest R. "Toward a Historical Interpretation of the Origins of Fundamentalism." ''Church History'' 1967 36(1): 66-83. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3162345 in JSTOR]
* Sandeen, ''The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930'' (1970), the standard scholarly history
* Weber, Timothy P. ''Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982'' (2nd ed. 1987)
==External links==
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb/ChristianMedia/prophecy_premdisp.html "Prophecy and the End-Times: What is Premillennial Dispensationalism?"]
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[[Category:Fundamentalism]]
[[File:End-time.jpg|thumb|550px|Dispensationalist interpretation of [[End Times]]]]
Dispensationalism came to dominate [[Premillennialism]] by 1900, that is the belief that the Bible teaches that Christ will return before setting up his millennial kingdom. Dispensationalism divides up human history into a series of dispensations. Darby identified two distinct divine plans, one for an "earthly" people (Israel) and the other for a "heavenly" people (the Christian church). One key to this entire prophecy is the refounding of Israel as a nation state in Palestine.
Sandeen (1967) finds the roots of [[Fundamentalism]] in an alliance of two 19th-century theologies, Dispensationalism derived from the Plymouth Brethren movement and the ministry of [[John Nelson Darby]]. Believers in Dispensationalism held a view of the church as a small group separate from major ecclesiastical institutions and primarily a spiritual fellowship. Their emphasis on Biblical literalism and their view of history as divided into seven dispensations had considerable influence in American Calvinistic denominations in the latter part of the century. The [[Princeton Theology]] was a unique system constructed at Princeton Seminary by Archibald Alexander and [[Charles Hodge]]. It emphasized a pre-Kantian rationalistic methodology and Biblical inerrancy.
The two movements with certain similarities and a common foe in Modernism were drawn together in informal cooperation in a series of International Prophetic Conferences beginning in 1878.
Premillennialism and Biblical inspiration provided the themes for the alliance. The Fundamentals, a series of 12 pamphlets published from 1910 to 1915, was supported by Lyman Stewart, a Presbyterian layman and a follower of Dispensationalism.
[[Fundamentalism]] at the turn of the century was a religious movement of great vitality with definable antecedents in theological innovations of the 19th century and centered in the urban North. In the religious conflict of the 1920s Fundamentalists split often along dispensational and Princeton lines.
==Further reading==
* Coker, Joe L. "Exploring the Roots of the Dispensationalist /Princetonian 'Alliance': Charles Hodge And John Nelson Darby on Eschatology and Interpretation of Scripture." ''Fides et Historia'' 1998 30(1): 41-56. 0884-5379
* Sandeen, Ernest R. "Toward a Historical Interpretation of the Origins of Fundamentalism." ''Church History'' 1967 36(1): 66-83. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3162345 in JSTOR]
* Sandeen, ''The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930'' (1970), the standard scholarly history
* Weber, Timothy P. ''Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982'' (2nd ed. 1987)
==External links==
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb/ChristianMedia/prophecy_premdisp.html "Prophecy and the End-Times: What is Premillennial Dispensationalism?"]
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[[Category:Fundamentalism]]