Dominion Theology

Dominionism

Dominion Theology is the result of merging political ideologies with militant and extremist versions of Christianity that would result in a nation led, governed, and enforced by those extremist Christians based on their understandings of Biblical law. In many cases, it was combined with British Israelism or Christian Identity to enforce sections of Old Covenant Law. Converts to dominionism base their beliefs off of a passage in the Bible from Genesis 1:28:

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

Dominionist converts claim that this passage should be extended from the animal kingdom as the passage is written to the political realm. Early leaders in the movement did so by claiming through either British Israelism or Christian Identity doctrine that certain classes of people were not part of God’s original creation and that those people have influenced political agendas in the United States.

Though dominion theology was popularized in the late 1980s, its roots can be traced to much earlier. R. J. Rushdoony, for example, taught Christian Reconstruction theology in the late 1960s and 1970s. William Branham, leader of the Post WWII Healing Revivals, taught dominions as early as 1960. According to Branham:

Man was made to be a god. His domain is the earth. The whole earth's awaiting now for the manifestation of the sons of God to be made manifest.
- Branham, William

You can learn this and more on william-branham.org