A Short History of Dominionism
by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
In
order to understand where the modern fusion called “Dominioism”
comes from, I want to first give you definitions of Kingdom Now, Dominionism
and Reconstructionism.
Dominionism
is sparsely defined as follows:
“Dominion
Theology (also known as Dominionism) is
a group of Christian political ideologies that seek to institute a nation
governed by Christians based on their personal understandings of biblical
law. Extents of rule and ways of achieving governing authority are varied.
For example, Dominion Theology can include theonomy,
but does not necessarily involve advocating Mosaic law as the basis of
government. The label is applied primarily toward groups of Protestants
in the United States.” [1]
It
is more closely defined this way:
“Dominionism,
or Christian Dominionism is a term coined
by social scientists and popularized by journalists to refer to a subset
of American Christianity that is conservative, politically active, and
believes that Christians should, and eventually will, take control of the
government. The term is sometimes used as a “catch-all” by bloggers
to describe any politically active Christian, but not every conservative,
politically minded Christian is a Dominionist.
Christian Dominionists believe that God
desires Christians to rise to power through civil systems so that His Word
might then govern the nation. The belief that “America is a Christian
nation” is sometimes called “soft dominionism”;
the idea that God wants only Christians to hold government office and run
the country according to biblical law is called “hard dominionism.”
[2]
“Hard Dominioism”
as it is called in the above definition, is what C. Peter Wagner (deceased)
of the New Apostolic Reformation (a term he coined) have been advocating,
following the teachings of the New Order of the Latter Rain and Reformed
Theology “Reconstructionism”.
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