Nor could it readily explain the precipitating decline of premillennialism in evangelicalism in the 2010s: its abandonment by seminaries and Christian colleges, denominational shifts like the decision by the Evangelical Free Church of America to declare premillennialism “nonessential” and remove it from its statement of faith, or the rapid growth of “network Christianity” teaching Pentecostal and charismatic postmillennialism.34 Of course, elite and institutional influence was only one measure of success. In the pulpits and pews, dispensational themes continued to resonate. To take one
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