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Zusatztext Any scholar wishing to write anything about dispensationalism would do well to consult this book first, because B. M. Pietsch gives us the most developed and nuanced interpretation of dispensational ideas yet seen. In doing so, he problematizes much of what we often say about premillennialism, dispensationalism, fundamentalism, and modernism. Informationen zum Autor B. M. Pietsch is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Nazarbayev University, in Astana, Kazakhstan. Klappentext Dispensationalism emerged in the twentieth century as a hugely influential force in American religion and soon became one of America's most significant religious exports. By the close of the century it had developed into a global religious phenomenon claiming millions of adherents. As the most common form of contemporary prophecy belief, dispensationalism has played a major role in transforming religion, politics, and pop culture in the U.S. and throughout the world. Despite its importance and continuing appeal, scholars often reduce dispensationalism to an anti-modern, apocalyptic, and literalist branch of Protestant fundamentalism. In Dispensational Modernism, B. M. Pietsch argues that, on the contrary, the allure of dispensational thinking can best be understood through the lens of technological modernism. Pietsch shows that between 1870 and 1920 dispensationalism grew out of the popular fascination with applying engineering methods -- such as quantification and classification -- to the interpretation of texts and time. At the heart of this new network of texts, scholars, institutions, and practices was the lightning-rod Bible teacher C. I. Scofield, whose best-selling Scofield Reference Bible became the canonical formulation of dispensational thought. The first book to contextualize dispensationalism in this provocative way, Dispensational Modernism shows how mainstream Protestant clergy of this time developed new "scientific" methods for interpreting the Bible, and thus new grounds for confidence in religious understandings of time itself. Zusammenfassung Dispensational Modernism reexamines the origins of dispensationalism in early American fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of scientific rhetoric and engineering methods in developing new methods for interpreting the Bible and understanding the nature of time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Taxonomic minds and the technological construction of confidence Chapter 2: The social construction of confidence Chapter 3: Competing sciences of biblical interpretation Chapter 4: Dispensational hermeneutics Chapter 5: Building the dispensations Chapter 6: Engineering time Chapter 7: The Scofield Reference Bible amidst a dispensational century Notes Index ...
