Overview
Many evangelical readers who have learned the basics of eschatology from popular authors and more recently from novelists assume that dispensational premillennialism, with its distinctive teachings about the pretribulation rapture of the church, is the only reliable view of the end times and the return of Christ.
This volume, however, offers a compelling case for an alternative perspective--one that was widely prevalent throughout church history. The contributors, all respected scholars in their respective fields, suggest that classic premillennialism offers believers a more coherent and viable approach to understanding eschatology.
Their studies, which examine eschatology from biblical, theological, historical, and missiological approaches, provide a broadly accessible argument for returning to the perspectives of historic premillennial eschatology.
This volume, however, offers a compelling case for an alternative perspective--one that was widely prevalent throughout church history. The contributors, all respected scholars in their respective fields, suggest that classic premillennialism offers believers a more coherent and viable approach to understanding eschatology.
Their studies, which examine eschatology from biblical, theological, historical, and missiological approaches, provide a broadly accessible argument for returning to the perspectives of historic premillennial eschatology.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Dispensational and Historic Premillennialism as Popular Millennialist Movements (Timothy P. Weber)
2. The Future Written in the Past: The Old Testament and the Millennium (Richard S. Hess)
3. Judaism and the World to Come (Hélène Dallaire)
4. The Posttribulationism of the New Testament: Leaving "Left Behind" Behind (Craig L. Blomberg)
5. The Theological Method of Premillennialism (Don J. Payne)
6. Contemporary Millennial/Tribulational Debates: Whose Side Was the Early Church On? (Donald Fairbairn)
7. Toward the Reformed and Covenantal Theology of Premillennialism: A Proposal (Sung Wook Chung)
8. Premillennial Tensions and Holistic Missiology: Latin American Evangelicalism (Oscar A. Campos)
Conclusion
Indexes
1. Dispensational and Historic Premillennialism as Popular Millennialist Movements (Timothy P. Weber)
2. The Future Written in the Past: The Old Testament and the Millennium (Richard S. Hess)
3. Judaism and the World to Come (Hélène Dallaire)
4. The Posttribulationism of the New Testament: Leaving "Left Behind" Behind (Craig L. Blomberg)
5. The Theological Method of Premillennialism (Don J. Payne)
6. Contemporary Millennial/Tribulational Debates: Whose Side Was the Early Church On? (Donald Fairbairn)
7. Toward the Reformed and Covenantal Theology of Premillennialism: A Proposal (Sung Wook Chung)
8. Premillennial Tensions and Holistic Missiology: Latin American Evangelicalism (Oscar A. Campos)
Conclusion
Indexes