10 Facts About Dispensationalism

Dispensationalism was a system formalized by John Nelson Darby which maintains that history is divided into multiple dispensations in which God acts in multiple different ways.

Dispensationalism holds that both the Old Testament and New Testament are interpreted using literal grammatical-historical interpretation.

Advocates of Dispensationalism have sought to find similar views of dispensations in Church history, referencing theologians or groups such as Francisco Ribera, the Taborites, Joachim of Fiore and others.

Dispensationalism taught that history should be organized into multiple dispensations in which God works with humans in different ways, including the millennium as a future dispensation.

Dispensationalism developed as a system from the teachings of John Nelson Darby, considered by some to be the father of dispensationalism, who strongly influenced the Plymouth Brethren of the 1830s in Ireland and England.

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Dispensationalism saw that prophecy required a future fulfillment and realization of Israel's kingdom.

Dispensationalism was adopted, modified, and made popular in the United States by the Scofield Reference Bible.

Dispensationalism was introduced as a premillennial position, and it largely took over the fundamentalist movement, over a period of several decades.

Dispensationalism was boosted after Dwight L Moody learned of dispensational theology from an unidentified member of the Brethren during 1872.

Dispensationalism has become very popular with American evangelicalism, especially among nondenominational Bible churches, Baptists, Pentecostal, and Charismatic groups.