Brian E. Daley · Historical theology · 1991
A broad survey of Christian teaching about the last things across the first seven centuries, tracing the many ideas which developed around death, resurrection, judgment, the intermediate state, the millennium, and the final destiny of creation.
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
An extensive journey through Revelation which examines its language, literary structures, Old Testament connections, recurring themes, sequence of visions, and place within the wider prophetic testimony of Scripture.
View recommendation →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
A wide-ranging study of God's purposes from creation to new creation, presenting Christian hope as bodily resurrection and life in a restored world under Christ rather than escape from the physical creation.
View recommendation →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…ing up separated from the final public descent. The early Church did not have one settled eschatology Appeals to "the early Church" often speak as though one unanimous system existed. The sources show considerable diversity shaped by geography, controversy, exegetical schools, pe…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…s that millennial belief did not automatically preserve a future for national Israel. His eschatology was geographically Jewish while his covenant identity was ecclesial. A restored Jerusalem could be inhabited by the Christian righteous without representing the national restorat…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…hrist’s three-and-a-half-year career before Christ’s glorious Second Advent. His complete eschatology was not dispensational, but that is precisely the point: a future Jewish temple, a personal Antichrist and a final measured period were present within ancient catholic Christiani…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…1924. Tommaso Tesei, "The Romans Will Win! Q 30:2–7 in Light of Seventh-Century Political Eschatology", for a critical academic discussion of the passage and its historical setting. Tesei's conclusions should be weighed rather than assumed. Kazuaki Kato, "Quranic Cosmogony: The I…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ordinary Christian who cannot explain every implication of justification, Christology or eschatology is not therefore a lower order of believer. He possesses the same Christ and confesses the same saving truth. Irenaeus’s rule of faith is broad enough to unite Christians across…
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