premillenialism

If the fundamentalist approach typically what is in technical terms known as "premillenialism" and often "premillenial dispensationalism" is correct, then we'd have to imagine the following as a plausible exchange between the book's author and its original readers: Reader: "Hey John, remember that book you sent us a while back?"

Christian Fundamentalism Views Revelation as a Mean Joke James F. McGrath 2008

This conflation of evangelicalism and premillenialism (and fundamentalism) goes on all the time.

Puncturing a gas bag ... Frank Wilson 2006

He identifies evolutionism as a form of religion and portrays the conflict between creationism and evolutionism as a fight between two religious doctrines, a struggle between premillenialism, the doctrine that earthly perfection will only be achieved after, and as a consequence, of the Second Coming, and postmillenialism, the view that Christ will return, if at all, only after earthly paradise has been achieved.

The Wars Over Evolution Lewontin, Richard C. 2005

Just curiously, did you confuse premillenialism with pre-tribulationalism?

Joels Trumpet 2009

Rushdoony utterly rejected the dispensational premillenialism at the core of Palin’s eschatology.

Palin Thinks US Is Now at War With Iran « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

Most Christian bookstores won’t carry books that deviate from the owners’ particular theological bent, whether it’s premillenialism, infant baptism, or anything else.

Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008