Pentecostal eschatology in history and in current Pentecostal scholarship. An interview with Dr. Peter Althouse. Click "Show More" for an outline of key points.
Key points:
-Not all early Pentecostals were dispensationalists. Most emphasized the Latter Rain of the Spirit before Christ returned.
-In the 1940s and following, Pentecostals increasingly taught dispensationalism as a reaction against the Latter Rain Movement and as they aligned themselves with the broader evangelical church.
-Fundamentalist dispensationalism didn't fit well with Pentecostal eschatology in that the former was cessationist (denied contemporary spiritual gifts of healing, tongues, etc.)
-Today Pentecostal theologians are emphasizing the already/ not yet nature of the kingdom of God.
-In contrast to dispensationalism, which offers an end-times blueprint of key events, perhaps the Bible offers no prophetic endtimes blueprint.
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