dc.contributor.author |
Horn, Nico
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-07-05T12:47:09Z |
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dc.date.available |
2011-07-05T12:47:09Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2008 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Horn, N. 2008,'Prophetic chiliasm : a clarion call for the Bride of Christ or a call to enlist in hell's armies? Re-evaluating the political significance of prophetic chiliasm in Pentecostal thinking',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXIV, no. 2, pp. 129-149. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1017-0499 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4503 |
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dc.description |
Peer reviewed |
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dc.description.abstract |
Most Pentecostals of the early 20th century accepted Darbyist
dispensationalism and pre-millennial chiliasm.
GR Wessels was the first Pentecostal to link
dispensationalism to pro-apartheid ideology. Kleynhans took
the political agenda further. He gave the apartheid regime a
messianic position. Communism hates God. Therefore they
hate the Jewish state and Christian South Africa.
The Iraqi war was the catalyst for a dispensationalism in
the USA that resembles the South African Pentecostal
dispensationalism. After 9/11 the American people suffered a
sense of loss and anger. Terrorist attacks are in a sense even
more frustrating than conventional war.
During September 2006 several pre-millenial pastors
encouraged the USA to invade Iran on TBN. The messages
sounded very similar to that of Kleynhans: The USA and Israel
are God’s elect, the Muslim world is the enemy.
Suggested further research should look at the effects of
conservative dispensationalism on the lives of the ordinary
believer. |
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dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (20 pages) |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Church History Society of South Africa |
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dc.subject |
Prophetic chiliasm |
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dc.subject |
Pentecostal thinking |
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dc.subject.ddc |
236.9 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Millennialism |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Pentecostalism |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Christianity and politics |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Apartheid |
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dc.title |
Prophetic chiliasm : a clarion call for the Bride of Christ or a call to enlist in hell's armies? Re-evaluating the political significance of prophetic chiliasm in Pentecostal thinking |
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dc.type |
Article |
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dc.description.department |
Research Institute for Theology and Religion |
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