dispensationalism
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- noun
- /ˌdɪspənˈseɪʃənəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
- Many churches today embrace dispensationalism as a framework for understanding biblical prophecy and human history.
- premillennial dispensationalism
Examples
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Dispensationalism is a particular way of reading Bible prophecy that divides the Bible into two stories.
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Premillennial dispensationalism teaches that God's plan for humanity unfolds in distinct stages throughout history.
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Darby is considered the father of Dispensationalism, which is the theology of the Left Behind Series.
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This is all part of the gospel that dispensationalism tends to undermine and work against.
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And the basic premise of dispensationalism is that all Bible prophecies concerning earthly events apply to the Jews.
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Dispensationalism tends to obscure, belittle, and deny the reign of Christ in his heavenly kingdom.
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The most dramatic religious expression of the importance of the Old Testament in American culture today is the rise of premillennial dispensationalism, an interpretation of biblical prophecies.
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Critics argue that dispensationalism oversimplifies complex theological concepts by categorizing them into specific time periods.
Surface Forms
Morphology
dispensationalism = dispensational (semi-transparent) = dispensation + al + ism
Formed by adding the ideological suffix '-ism' to 'dispensational'; the morphological formation is regular but the full meaning is specialized to theology and may be unfamiliar to general learners.
Etymology
Dispensationalism comes from dispensation, which is like the common verb dispense meaning 'to give out' or 'to manage', plus the ending -ism for a belief. So dispensationalism is the belief that history is split into different 'periods' when God deals with people in different ways.