Pentecostal/charismatic affiliated dominionist groups:

1830's (First writings on rapture; "pretribulation dispensationalism" (a la the kind of stuff you read about in the Left Behind books) is the dominant flavour in many pente/charismatic dominionist groups, but is a very new concept in Christianity itself; much of support for dominionism in pente/charismatic groups is based on idea church has a "dispensation", and this is also basis of much support for "Christian Zionism"; also is focus for the extremely aggressive attempts by the AoG in particular to convert Jews (including in Israel) to "messianic Jews")

190: (Azusa Street Revival--this is actually specifically cited by pente/charismatic groups of "evidence of God's choosing the US" and a reason why the US must be converted to a theocracy; originally a split within the Methodist Church (hence why Bush can be practically an AoGer but still claim he's "Methodist"--technically all pentecostal/charismatic denominations are ultimately Methodist splits)

1920's (splits between pentecostal denominations)

1930's (beginning of radio-evangelism)

1940-ish (founding of Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International; one of the first "front groups" of the AoG devoted to stealth evangelism and major early centre of dominionist movement; trends in "word-faith" (aka name-it-and-claim-it), "deliverance ministry", Brownsville/Toronto "third wave" stuff, etc. have largely spread between and through pentecostal denominations through FGBMFI)

1950's (first modern examples of dominionism taking advantage of "red scare" (including attempts to pass constitutional amendments declaring the US a "nation under the law and authority of Jesus Christ"); "under God" amendment to Pledge of Allegiance one major result, also beginning of televangelism and of conspiracy theories in dominionist community concerning Russia-as-Antichrist; beginnings of "Third Wave" pentecostalism (which is explicitly dominionist) via Paul Yonggi Cho in Yoido Full Gospel (AoG) megachurch in South Korea)

1960's, especially late 1960's (beginnings of "neo-pentecostal" and charismatic movements, which have generally been more explicitly tied to dominionism; beginnings of parachurch groups associated with dominionism such as Campus Crusade for Christ and Maranatha (later disbanded after exposes of coercive tactics); beginnings of "quasi-denominations" such as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard churches; initial spread of "Third Wave" dogma to American AoG churches)

1970's-early 80's (foundation of Moral Majority and Christian Coalition; beginnings of explicit attempts to hijack Republican Party state conventions; most of the "old guard" dominionist groups like Eagle Forum, etc. began their formation around early 80's; "Third Wave" practice embraced by AoG and especially "independent charismatic" churches like Ted Haggard's New Life Church (one of the first three or four big "third wave" churches in the US)

Mid-80's-90's ("Brownsville Revival"/"Third Wave" breaks out of AoG, goes to Vineyard churches and back to AoG again; dominionist control over Republican state conventions solidified at this point; US Taxpayer Party (nee Constitution Party) formed; most of "new wave" of dominionist groups founded at this point)

(Forgive the fuzziness in dates--as this involved multiple denominations and dominionism is highly tied with at least three religious movements in pente/charismatic churches (word-faith (aka name-it-and-claim-it), dominion theology including specifically the practice of "deliverance ministry" (to quote Marguerite Perrin: "Everything Is Un-Godly"; Perrin is actually a good example of someone into the "third wave" variety of pente/charismatic thought) and especially the "Third Wave" movement (Toronto/Brownsville revivals, practices at New Life Church and multiple large AoG churches, "Kansas City Prophets", et al) which is dominionist at its core and has a heavy emphasis on "spiritual warfare") dates will often overlap.  I am most familiar with dominionism within the AoG itself, but a lot of "independent charismatic" churches also have similar histories.)

Southern Baptists:

1847--Split with the original main body of Baptists regarding the issue of whether missionaries could own slaves.  (The main body of Baptists had passed a church regulation against it.)

Church remains conservative through 50's to early 60's; post-Civil War era experienced considerable liberalisation until the mid-80's.

1986-ish and continuing from there: Rev. Al Mohler hijacks Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, begins major purge of non-dominionists.  Dominionists succeed in taking over church government apparatus for the Convention, leading ultimately to the destruction of the social works school at the Seminary (quite literally all the professors were purged for not being dominionist enough).  Church ultimately splits again, with Mainstream Baptists (moderates) leaving the Convention.  Southern Baptist Convention especially since the 90's has gone hardline dominionist, but is actually a relatively new player compared with pente/charismatic groups and "independent Baptist" groups.

Independent Baptists:

Generally small splits (much like how one or two pentecostal denominations have split to nearly 400 (not counting the "independent charismatic" megachurches)), the fundamentalist "independent Baptist" churches, much like pente/charismatic churches, have been at the early heart of dominionism.  Much writing on "Christian Reconstructionism" in particular is from the "independent Baptist" churches, including the writings of Rushdoony himself.

by dogemperor on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 04:56:36 PM EST
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/dark_christian/64392.html (an attempt to catalogue code words, code phrases, and "brand names" used in the dominionist community)

http://p212.ezboard.com/fexpentecostalforumsfrm7.showMessage?topicID=969.topic (another attempt to create a lexicon, this one more specific to pente/charismatic-affiliated dominionist groups; is a good guide for many of the more "hardcore" dominionist groups to show how an entirely different language is spoken at times)

by dogemperor on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 10:20:42 AM EST
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