Whether cognizant of the reality or not, twenty-first-century American evangelicals lived in a religious culture deeply imprinted by the dispensational system, whose ideas did not vanish, as Frykholm perceptively documented, but whose theological integrity was laid low. The parts of dispensationalism had been scattered, no longer organized in the service of a seemingly broken “system” but pulled into powerful currents of popular culture and politics where they continued to shape and form Christians in powerful ways.
