Samuel Hopkins made disinterested benevolence the centerpiece of his salvation theology to replace Jonathan Edwards' "religious affections" as a primary evidence of regeneration.

That same year, Zondervan published The Gospel According to Jesus by John MacArthur Jr., a work which would crystallize the influence of Lordship Salvation Theology in Dispensational circles.

Seal's hero is not proletarian, and does not take recourse to rationalism, scientism, Marxism or any salvation theology, but a universal redeemer whose task, like Prometheus, is to "redeem humanity from the bondage of the Gods":