Dispensationalism

=== ''The Fundamentals'' ===
In the 1910s, another publication took hold within American evangelicalism. A twelve-volume publication known as ''[[The Fundamentals]]'' was published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company. Managed by an executive committee of dispensationalists including Clarence Dixon and Rueben Torrey, ''The Fundamentals'' helped solidify dispensationalism within American Christian fundamentalism and the evangelical movement.<ref name=":20" />

The [[Scopes trial]] in 1925 served to unify the fundamentalists, and with them, dispensationalism. However, very shortly after, fundamentalism as a movement began to decline. Scopes trial prosecutor and public face of the fundamentalist movement [[William Jennings Bryan]] died a week after the verdict, and [[H. L. Mencken]] portrayed supporters of the verdict as largely uneducated. In Bryan's absence, a decentralizing of the movement began. The fate of dispensationalism was tied to the breakdown in fundamentalism.<ref name=":20" />

In 1928, [[Philip Mauro]], seeking to re-invigorate the fundamentalist movement, pointed the finger at dispensationalism, and in the process coined the term. He alleged the view was more recent than Darwinism and that it eroded the fundamental truths of scripture, singling it out as the source of division within the larger fundamentalist movement.<ref name=":20" />

Evangelical Theological College acquired the historical theological journal ''[[Bibliotheca Sacra]]'' in 1934. In its pages, Lewis Chafer first publicly declared that he was a dispensationalist. In 1936, Chafer published a 60-page response to the criticisms of Mauro and other fundamentalists entitled ''Dispensationalism''. That same year, Chafer renamed his school Dallas Theological Seminary.<ref name=":20" />

Through the 1930s and 1940s, the conflict within fundamentalism continued between dispensationalists and covenantalists, leading to permanent divisions within fundamentalism, ultimately giving shape to the entire fundamentalist movement.<ref name=":20" />