In the United States the history of John Nelson Darby's dispensational premillennialism is intimately tied up with the history of fundamentalism. It is difficult to talk about dispensational premillennialism in the believers church tradition in the twentieth century without making some reference to the fundamentalist movement. In fact, the two distinguishing marks of fundamentalist theology have been the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and the eschatological schema known as dispensationalism. It is thus rather surprising that historians have de-emphasized dispensational premillennialism in explaining the history of fundamentalism. I think that this is a mistake. But to explain why I think this is a mistake, I need to say something about how historians have written about fundamentalism.
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Apocalypticism and Millennialism: Shaping a Believers Church Eschatology for the 21st Century. Loren L. Johns, ed. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2000.
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