The End of Days

by Clouse, Robert G.

• ISBN13: 9781594731709
• ISBN10: 1594731705
• Edition: Annotated
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-08
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

The phenomenon of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's Left Behind series is only the most recent entry in the development of the Christian ideas of the Last Days, or the coming of the Apocalypse, which have developed over the centuries. Readers who are curious about what supports the growing belief that God's Kingdom on Earth is imminently approaching will find answers in this book. With insightful and broad knowledge of the historical, religious, and contemporary contexts of the Apocalyptic texts, Clouse introduces readers to the beliefs and values held by those who rely on the promises found in the Book of Revelations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Biblical Foundations	p. 3
The Seventy Weeks of Years	p. 3
Increase in Apostasy	p. 5
The Rapture	p. 7
The Tribulation	p. 9
Armageddon	p. 17
The Millennium	p. 21
The Last Judgment	p. 23
Premillennialism and the Church Fathers	p. 27
Papias	p. 27
Irenaeus	p. 31
Justin Martyr	p. 31
Tertullian	p. 31
Hippolytus	p. 33
Commodianus	p. 35
Lactantius	p. 37
Origen	p. 39
Augustine's Spiritualized Amillennialism	p. 43
from The City of God	p. 43
Radical Millennialist Movements and the Church's Response in the Medieval and Reformation Eras	p. 57
Anabaptist Millennialism	p. 57
John Calvin	p. 65
Martin Luther	p. 69
Guy de Bray	p. 71
The English Congregational Church	p. 73
Seventeenth-century Revival of Premillennialism	p. 75
Johann Alsted	p. 75
Joseph Mede	p. 81
John Archer	p. 83
John Rogers	p. 87
Anna Trapnel	p. 89
Eighteenth-century Postmillennialism	p. 93
Daniel Whitby	p. 93
Jonathan Edwards	p. 97
Nineteenth-century Dispensationalism	p. 101
John N. Darby	p. 101
William E. Blackstone	p. 107
Dwight L. Moody	p. 119
Twentieth-century Developments	p. 125
Cyrus I. Scofield	p. 125
William S. McBirnie	p. 135
Christabel Pankhurst	p. 143
Dr. Leonard Sale-Harrison	p. 149
Into the Twenty-first Century	p. 157
Hal Lindsey	p. 157
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins	p. 165
Notes	p. 175
Glossary	p. 183
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 186
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