Mauro’s new thinking stood in contrast to the new premillennial leadership, still deeply influential in the vast Moody movement, which taught the future kingdom as a cardinal doctrine. Mauro was becoming a new thing himself: a fundamentalist.
Like almost everywhere in this book. I have some sympathies for evangelism and for ecumenical activity and for working outside of church structures. But I am not at all a dispensationalist. At the same time I keep reading the critics and I have some sympathies for some of their points of conflict. In this case I agree with his point about the earthly kingdom not being a modern state of Israel and I am concerned about the way it implicates ethics and the sermon on the mount. But I am not at all a fundamentalist who wants to fight over the 7 day creation, biblical literalism or some of his other concerns. I want to know the history. But I don’t need to pick sides because as much as anything, this is history is grounded in issues that are not current. And so we don’t really have to take a side and fight on it. Their issues were just different from our current tissues. We have a different set of issues of discernment because our reality is a different reality.
