Archive for the ‘Eschatology’ Category

Virgil Ambrose Cruz, The Mark of the Beast

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 ...

Johann Albrecht Bengel

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 ...

Keith A. Mathison (ed.), When Shall These Things Be?

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 ...

Mealy, After the Thousand Years

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 ...

Van Deventer, Amillennial History

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 ...

Kuyper, Revelation

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 ...

Wainwright, Mysterious Apocalypse

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 ...