Archive for the ‘Eschatology’ Category
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Cruz, Virgil Ambrose. The Mark of the Beast: A Study of the ΧΑΡΑΓΜΑ [CHARAGMA] in the Apocalypse. Amsterdam: Academische Pers N. V., 1973. 153 pp.
This thesis is a very important, but also quite neglected study. Cruz carefully surveys how the mark of the beast is used in Revelation.
One of the most ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Johann Albrecht Bengel, who is also known by the English rendering: John Albert Bengel, was born in Württemberg i Germany in 1687. He died in 1752. He was contemporary with Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from 1685 to 1750. While Bach was a North German, Bengel was from the South ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Mathison, Keith A., ed. When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing, 2004. xxii + 376 pp.This volume critiques "hyper-preterism," the view that all prophecy in Scripture has already been fulfilled.For more on this volume, visit Riddleblog's "Eschatology Q & A ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Mealy, J. Webb: After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20. (JSNT.SS 70). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. 273 pp.Mealy's study is the first monograph on Revelation 20 since Bietenhard's from 1955. Mealy argues in favour of a premillennial position, even though he, at first, seems to present ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Jack Van Deventer, "Amillennial History," Credenda Agenda 14/2 (apparently no date): 34-35.On-line as http://credenda.org/issues/14-2eschaton.phpWhen looking at the Internet for information about Abraham Kuyper, I came across this very interesting article on the history of the term and concept of amillennial(ism): "Amillennial History," by Jack Van Deventer, over at Credenda/Agenda (see ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Kuyper, Abraham. The Revelation of St. John. Trans. John Hendrik De Vries. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1935. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1999. 360 pp. Abraham Kuyper was a very influential Calvinist theologian and statesman. He took both his undergraduate and doctoral degree in ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wainwright, Arthur William. Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993. 293 pages, bibliography, indices and 35 pages with notes. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock publishers, 2001.This very well-written and well researched book contains three parts, the first of which treats "The Millennium and History". It ...
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