The bible, he argued, "declares that there are just two classes--There are those who are lost and there those who are saved." (34) The need to reconcile contradictions within an inerrant bible also led Hildebrand down the same
dispensationalist path as Aberhart.
Online ethnography of
dispensationalist discourse: Revealed verses negotiated truth.
Kidd rightly devoted much more space to the hardline critics of Islam, including those who turn to
dispensationalist prophecy to demonize Muslims.
The old eschatological interpretation of the spirit in Pentecostal circles was
dispensationalist: the world is aging, and today is the last stage of the world.
In addition, the popularity of The Passion of the Christ film (2004), endorsed by many evangelical leaders, and of the explicitly
dispensationalist Left Behind novels showed how American culture as a whole was getting evangelical religion.
and He will regulate the affairs of how Israel comes into the allotment which is hers forever." (3) They celebrated the rebirth and the restoration of the Jews in Israel as evidence and justification for their
dispensationalist theology and as part of the divine plan for further developments in the apocalyptic process, which will lead to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
His book, the veritable reference source of American
dispensationalist thought, sold millions of copies.
Once such unity between Israel and the church, the one people of God, is acknowledged (this is clearly the Catholic perspective as opposed to some Evangelical
dispensationalist views that insist on keeping them apart), it is necessary to reflect on the Christian understanding of the mission of Israel today, as it remains a "light to the Nations" (cf.
After all, the
dispensationalist scenario culminates in a third world war in the Middle East and the consignment of unconverted Jews to hell before the messiah returns.
Howard (2000) studied the rhetoric of
dispensationalist Christians in online discussion boards.
Christian
dispensationalist fundamentalism no more reflects the unity of the Christianities than Orthodox Judaism reflects the unity of the Judaisms--either in Israel or the United States.