My last sentence re: prophet and pope is about as much as I care about any of this stuff. It's always the same in that there is a core and then offshoots in many directions, thus the need to ask people to define and explain their terminology so as to try to get to the basics of what they're thinking is.
A couple of excerpts that may explain the phrases I used:
The roots of dominionism are found in the mid-20th century, when Rousas John Rushdoony developed a hermeneutic called Christian reconstructionism. Rushdoony was the son of refugees who fled the Armenian genocide; he became a Presbyterian minister whose views frequently led to conflicts in his own congregation and denomination. Rushdoony went on to found the Chalcedon Foundation to develop and propagate his views on how Christians should live in the world.
Following Rushdoony, a hyper-charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation picked up on dominionist theology while jettisoning reconstructionism’s goal of Mosaic law. The NAR teaches that prophets and apostles are essential to church governance. In the NAR, apostles and prophets can receive new revelation from God and give that revelation to their followers.
I'd rather be trying to figure out Law than contending with how many false prophets we may have to stone.
