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Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?

Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? 172 Book Reviews / Pneuma 30 (2008) 147-191 Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (Leicester, UK: InterVarsity Press, 2004). 298 pp., $32.00, paper. While there are many different expressions of world Pentecostalism, there are also fea- tures common to most, notably charismata (especially glossolalia). Another, arguably, is Zionism. Historically, of course, Pentecostalism’s eschatology was strongly influenced by dispensationalism, which helped to make the movement strongly Zionist. While I am not suggesting that all Pentecostals support the modern state of Israel (I know of several who take an opposite view), nonetheless, Zionism is a defining feature of clas- sical Pentecostalism that has since found expression (albeit at varying degrees) across the movement as a whole. It is for this reason that Pentecostals ought to be aware of Stephen Sizer’s book, which is highly critical of Christian Zionism. Sizer explores Christian Zionism’s dispensationalist roots and history, its theological emphases, and what he regards as its political implications. He concludes by offering a covenantal alternative. Sizer believes that British dispensational- ism was instrumental in creating the political will within the British political establishment to create a Jewish homeland (and later a Jewish state) within British-controlled Palestine. Moreover, British dispensationalism, which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?

Pneuma , Volume 30 (1): 172 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0272-0965
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10.1163/157007408X287975
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172 Book Reviews / Pneuma 30 (2008) 147-191 Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (Leicester, UK: InterVarsity Press, 2004). 298 pp., $32.00, paper. While there are many different expressions of world Pentecostalism, there are also fea- tures common to most, notably charismata (especially glossolalia). Another, arguably, is Zionism. Historically, of course, Pentecostalism’s eschatology was strongly influenced by dispensationalism, which helped to make the movement strongly Zionist. While I am not suggesting that all Pentecostals support the modern state of Israel (I know of several who take an opposite view), nonetheless, Zionism is a defining feature of clas- sical Pentecostalism that has since found expression (albeit at varying degrees) across the movement as a whole. It is for this reason that Pentecostals ought to be aware of Stephen Sizer’s book, which is highly critical of Christian Zionism. Sizer explores Christian Zionism’s dispensationalist roots and history, its theological emphases, and what he regards as its political implications. He concludes by offering a covenantal alternative. Sizer believes that British dispensational- ism was instrumental in creating the political will within the British political establishment to create a Jewish homeland (and later a Jewish state) within British-controlled Palestine. Moreover, British dispensationalism, which

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