Millennialism and The American Political Dream

By Steve Wolfgang That Americans have long perceived a special relationship between their country and their God is a fact obvious enough to be a truism. Historians have spent considerable time in the past 15 years explaining “the civil religion,”(1) producing reams of articles, essays, and book-length manuscripts. The phrase “the civil religion” (used by Robert Bellah …

Premillennialism & American Politics

By Rodney M. Miller The close link between dispensationalism and the American political scene cannot be denied. Dispensationalism is the form of premillennialism that has split the country and, actually, the Christian world in the last few years. The key to understanding the dispensationalist, like Hal Lindsey, is to separate the church age and the kingdom …

Why Fellowship Does Not Exist With Premillennialists

By Robert C. Welch Some premillennial preachers met with some other preachers and brethren in Louisville, Kentucky in 1952 far the-purpose of discussing some solution to the lack of fellowship. The premillennialists proposed that it could be had if they not be opposed as they taught the doctrine, according to what they were wont to call …