dispensationalism

(noun)

A Protestant evangelical theology rooted in the writings of John Nelson Darby.

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Examples of dispensationalism in the following topics:

  • Christian Fundamentalism

    • One school of thought was Dispensationalism, a new interpretation of the Bible developed in the 1830s in England.
    • By the late 1920s the first two schools of thought – Dispensationalism and Princeton Theology – had become central to Fundamentalism.
    • Moody was influential in preaching the imminence of the Kingdom of God that was so important to Dispensationalism.