Good call -- UB's library has it. I've also got another similar book for that. I may also use
Living In the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillenialism by Timothy Weber (also in the UB Library).
A lot of my source material will probably be primary sources -- Darby, Chaffer, Scofield, Ryrie, Lindsay, and LaHaye. I'll probably ignore the varients like Bock and Blasing's Progressive Dispensationalism. (For the life of me, I can't see a sharp difference between progressive dispensationalism and new covenant theology, at least.)
I'm thinking this could be a blast, but I'm under no illusions that I'll prove or disprove the system here. I'm not expecting to have the definitive rebuttal or argument for dispensationalism contained within a 10-page term paper. Rather, I hope to understand for myself how this doctrine went from a theological novelty to the establishment as quickly as it did.
I would add Dwight Pentecost's Things To Come to your study. His work was more detailed than Ryrie and fleshed out more of the Dispensational system.
Also instrumental in the promotion of dispensationalism was the small book Jesus is Coming by WE Blackstone (1878) and the Bible Conference movement.
Also the 1917 Balfour declaration and the 1948 reemergence of Israel as a State.
Good call -- UB's library has it.
Good. Now to the important stuff: any chance you could find me some of those Apocalypse Placemats?
I really want some. They'd be perfect for when I have hunting buddies in or when we're doing the cowboy thing.
Can't find a bigger picture of them online:
Only the 11x14 and 22x28 prints are available, I can't find the placemats.
You can't quite see the plane crashed into the building or the souls flying upward but you can see a little of the general mayhem.