http://www.tyndale.edu/dirn/source/theology.html
Quote: Decade after decade, dispensationalists have endured the charge by their opponents that there are no historical antecedents for their doctrine prior to John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and the Plymouth Brethren. Millard J. Erickson, for example, asserts flatly that “No trace of this theology can be found in the early history of the church.†And Clarence B. Bass declares that “No dispensational writer has ever been able to offer . . . a single point of continuity between what is today known as dispensationalism and the historic premillennial view.â€Â
see also: "The Theocratic Kingdom" by Peters. It's a 3 vol. work.
Quote: Decade after decade, dispensationalists have endured the charge by their opponents that there are no historical antecedents for their doctrine prior to John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and the Plymouth Brethren. Millard J. Erickson, for example, asserts flatly that “No trace of this theology can be found in the early history of the church.†And Clarence B. Bass declares that “No dispensational writer has ever been able to offer . . . a single point of continuity between what is today known as dispensationalism and the historic premillennial view.â€Â
see also: "The Theocratic Kingdom" by Peters. It's a 3 vol. work.