Dispensationalism

== Criticism ==
The term "dispensationalism" is believed to have originated with Philip Mauro. His critique of the system is found in Mauro's 1928 book ''The Gospel of the Kingdom'', in which he stated that "evangelical Christianity must purge itself of this leaven of dispensationalism", using the term to group the new premillennialism, the idea of dispensational time, and the Israel-Church distinction into a singular bundled idea.<ref name=":20" />

Protestant denominations that embrace [[covenant theology]] as a whole tend to reject dispensationalism. For example, Presbyterian minister John Wick Bowman called the Scofield Bible "the most dangerous heresy current to be found within Christian circles".<ref name=":7" />{{Rp|page=13}} Dispensational theology ultimately led the Presbyterian Church of America (later the [[Orthodox Presbyterian Church]]) to split from Bible Presbyterian Synod, which taught dispensationalism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gerstner |first=John Henry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-oEAAAACAAJ |title=Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of Dispensationalism |date=2000 |publisher=Soli Deo Gloria Publications |isbn=978-1-57358-068-7 |pages=61 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Churches of Christ]] underwent division during the 1930s as [[Robert Henry Boll]] (who taught a variant of the dispensational philosophy) and [[Foy E. Wallace]] (representing the [[Amillennialism|amillennial]] stance) disputed severely over eschatology.

The presupposition of the difference between law and grace carries to the conclusion that there are multiple forms of salvation.<ref name=":16" />{{Rp|page=34}}

The pessimism of premillennial eschatology caused dispensationalists to consider social reform as wasted effort, focusing only on conversion of the lost without effort toward the kingdom building social reform of postmillennialism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Balmer |first=Randall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SiUXtAEACAAJ |title=The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond |date=2017 |publisher=Baylor University Press |isbn=978-1-4813-0488-7 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=35–36}}

Political commentator [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Kevin Phillips]] claimed in ''American Theocracy'' (2006) that dispensationalist and other fundamentalist Christians, together with the [[oil lobby]], provided political assistance for the invasion of Iraq during 2003.<ref name=":18">{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Kevin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pU9z669ZwEC |title=American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century |date=2006-03-21 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9781101218846 |page=}}</ref>{{Rp|page=87}} He further points out that most theologians acknowledge there is no specific sequence of end-times events in the Bible, and that such a belief is the result of a century of "amplified Darbyism", further quoting theologian Barbara Rossing that such hyper-literalism is a "dangerous and false view".<ref name=":18" />{{Rp|page=253–254}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rossing |first=Barbara R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mK2fcw-GkMIC |title=The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation |date=2007-03-30 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-00496-6 |pages=173–174 |language=en}}</ref>