Lindsey offered no mentions of Scofield or Chafer or of his many teachers at Dallas. Late Great Planet Earth was intended as much as an evasion of the scholastic tradition as it was indebted to it. The torrent of pop-dispensational works that followed Lindsey exhibited even fewer references to scholastic thought, further widening the breach in the community. Late Great Planet Earth’s success instead prompted new, less theologically grounded questions for writers: Why did prophecy commentary need any connection to the scholastics or to formal religious thought of any kind? Why did it need to be
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