sentences:  John Piper uses Ladd's desire for scholarly credibility as a cautionary tale, and relates how Ladd "was almost undone emotionally and professionally" by Norman Perrin's critical review of Ladd's "Jesus and the Kingdom".Piper goes on to describe how Ladd walked through the halls of Fuller shouting and waving a royalty check when "A Theology of the New Testament" was a stunning success ten years later.Ladd was a notable, modern proponent of Historic Premillennialism, and often criticized dispensationalist views.