Millennium

Rating:
Summary: Helpful introduction to Eschatology
Review: Loraine Boettner was a generous-hearted man who used to buy his own books and sell them at cost-price. This is how I got my copies.In each book you will find the statement: "Anyone is at liberty to use material from this book, with or without credit... The writer's desire is to further, not restrict its use."

As a child I was taught the Dispensational view of the Second Coming, and was blissfully unaware that it was a very recent development, unknown to the Apostles and everyone else until the mid-Nineteenth Century. Reading Boettner's book was a helpful corrective, combined with reading Robert Clouse's "The Meaning of the Millennium."

It is worth reading Boettner to gain an understanding of Postmillennialism, which is the least-known of the various views held by evangelical Christians [though it is quite prominent in some Presbyterian and Reformed circles].

Boettner's books are easily found on the internet, where they are legally available, but it is worth having the hard copy. There is something about a book!
Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Helpful introduction to Eschatology
Review: Loraine Boettner was a generous-hearted man who used to buy his own books and sell them at cost-price. This is how I got my copies.In each book you will find the statement: "Anyone is at liberty to use material from this book, with or without credit... The writer's desire is to further, not restrict its use."

As a child I was taught the Dispensational view of the Second Coming, and was blissfully unaware that it was a very recent development, unknown to the Apostles and everyone else until the mid-Nineteenth Century. Reading Boettner's book was a helpful corrective, combined with reading Robert Clouse's "The Meaning of the Millennium."

It is worth reading Boettner to gain an understanding of Postmillennialism, which is the least-known of the various views held by evangelical Christians [though it is quite prominent in some Presbyterian and Reformed circles].

Boettner's books are easily found on the internet, where they are legally available, but it is worth having the hard copy. There is something about a book!
Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Great Introduction to Eschatology
Review: This is the first book I have read on eschatology, and it did not disappoint. Boettner is a postmillenialist who thoroughly examines all three views on the millenium: postmillenialism, amillenialism, and premillenialism (including dispensationalism). I grew up in a premillenial tradition and had always been taught two contradictory views concerning the end times: 1) the Rapture could occur at any time without warning or sign, and 2) there are many signs around us (e.g. Jews moving back to Pallestine) signifying that the end is near. Boettner does a great job destroying both of these myths by using the scriptures exhaustively. The picture he paints is that of a church victorious on the earth with Christ as its leader.

Rating:
Summary: Great Introduction to Eschatology
Review: This is the first book I have read on eschatology, and it did not disappoint. Boettner is a postmillenialist who thoroughly examines all three views on the millenium: postmillenialism, amillenialism, and premillenialism (including dispensationalism). I grew up in a premillenial tradition and had always been taught two contradictory views concerning the end times: 1) the Rapture could occur at any time without warning or sign, and 2) there are many signs around us (e.g. Jews moving back to Pallestine) signifying that the end is near. Boettner does a great job destroying both of these myths by using the scriptures exhaustively. The picture he paints is that of a church victorious on the earth with Christ as its leader.