2008 UGST Symposium
Oneness Pentecostals and Dispensationalism: Modification or Replacement?
Daniel L. Segraves, PhD (ABD)
Although the early twentieth century Pentecostal movement did not originally
embrace dispensationalism,2 the dispensational theory soon flourished in some segments
of Pentecostalism among those who “shared the premillennial vision of the future” and
who thus found that “dispensationalism with its intense emphasis on futuristic
eschatology had a strong appeal to them.”3 It was immediately necessary, however, for
Pentecostals to modify Scofieldian dispensationalism, because although the “system . . .
provides a convenient method of organizing biblical history and teaches that it is possible
to fit the full range of prophetic Scripture into something like a complicated puzzle,”4 it
also asserted “that the gifts of the Spirit, especially what has been called ‘the sensational
gifts’ or ‘sign gifts’ (healing, faith, working of miracles, and tongues), were confined to
the apostolic age.”5 Although cessationism was rejected by Pentecostals, “the
dispensational understanding of the church, as well as its eschatology, has influenced
pentecostal theology.”6
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