Backgrounds to Dispensationalism: Its Historical Genesis and Ecclesiastical Implications
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- Synopsis
- The initial publication of Backgrounds to Dispensationalism (1960), along with several other contemporary studies, marked a new day in scholarship on dispensationalism. For the first time dispensationalism received critical analysis that was not primarily polemical. Bass’s extensive research in a daunting mass of primary materials and the careful analysis of the theological developments provide welcome insight into this prominent theological tradition. Backgrounds to Dispensationalism remains an essential guide for students of this tradition. Bass helpfully distinguishes between “pastor-dispensationalists” and the more elaborate and nuanced “academic dispensationalists” (8). Though such a distinction may be applicable to most theological traditions, it is especially apropos for dispensationalism. The “pastor-dispensationalist” far outnumbers the academic version and dominates the public face of dispensationalism, both within evangelicalism and in American culture generally. From C. I. Scofield and Arno Gabelein to Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye and a host of Bible teachers and pastors, pastor-dispensationalism provides outsiders and insiders alike with their most powerful images. Backgrounds to Dispensationalism insightfully explains the emergence of dispensationalism under John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren movement of Britain in the early and mid-1800s. That context illuminates this tradition and clarifies some important distinctions among the Brethren and between Brethren and non- Brethren varieties of dispensationalism. The diversity and manifold developments in American dispensationalism over the past century and a half remind us that dispensationalism cannot be reduced to the lengthened shadow of John Nelson Darby’s theology. Yet many dispensationalists are too quick to distance themselves from Darby’s lineage. Though later generations altered some of Darby’s most distinctive views, Bass rightly argues that Darby’s contribution is decisive for early dispensationalism.
- Copyright:
- 1960
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 183 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781597520812
- Publisher:
- Wipf & Stock Publishers
- Date of Addition:
- 08/23/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Bass, Clarence B.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Michael K. Martin
- Proofread By:
- Frenchie
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.