A rising movement of Christian political activism and a new strain of nationalism—gathering steam in the 1970s and bursting forth in the New Christian Right at the end of the decade—was, like the commercial popularizers, animated not by strict theological purity but by galvanized interests in society, politics, and culture. Pop dispensationalism’s emphasis on eschatology gave it special cachet in both commercial and political spaces. Meanwhile, the external and internal blows to the scholastic project left dispensationalism-as-a-theological-system in tatters.
