The Last Days Are Here Again: A History of the End Times
Average Rating: out of 3 Reviews
Manufacturer: Baker Pub Group
EAN (European Article Number): 9780801058097
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: Richard G. Kyle
Publisher: Baker Pub Group
Dewey Decimal Number: 236.909
Publication Date: 1998-05
Reading Level: 255
Description: As we inch closer and closer to the third millennium, the intensity of end-times predictions has reached a fever pitch. The magic phrase The Year 2000 has many looking for evidence of biblical prophecy and pointing their fingers at contemporary events, claiming that Christ is prepared to return for his church.
Although the calendar has driven many writers and preachers to focus on the supposed unique nature of our age, speculation on the last days is far from a novel phenomenon. As Richard Kyle points out, this speculation has run rampant for nearly 2,000 years.
Rather than simply focusing on specific time periods or movements, Kyle takes a comprehensive look at the history of thought about the end times, offering a fair treatment of various millennial positions by incorporating an intellectual/cultural approach. Kyle also takes a look at secular apocalyptic thought and end-of-the-world ideas espoused by fringe groups such as the Heavens Gate cult. Anyone curious about end-times speculation or interested in prophecy and history will find The Last Days Are Here Again an intriguing resource.
Customer Reviews
Review Summary: Excellent look at Christian Apocalyptic History
Date: 2000-08-09
Details: This book was required as the text for a course at a local college. We'll written and documented, it allows the reader to research on his own if he is in disagreement with the author. A pleasure to read, I read 80% of it one saturday. Good for the beginner, in that it defines terms used in simple language that makes it easier for the reader to grasp to concepts presented. I reccomend it highly to anyone, Christian or non, who wants to know more about Christian history.
Review Summary: Historical Perspective of Our "End Times" Beliefs
Date: 2000-05-30
Details: Kyle pulls together a diverse collection of eshatological beliefs, predictions and events in such a way that one can really get a grasp on where we (as the church universal) have been on this issue. Is the dispensational premill position the historically dominant position of the church? What about the church's historical view of the rapture, the millennium or the tribulation. How did the church deal with deviant eschatologies?
I've studied eschatology in seminary, but this book really brings the scattered ideas and events together in an understandable and thought provoking way.
This book is a MUST READ for every pastor or teacher. If you are a layman, get the book. Read it, and then give it to your minister. Before you speak on the end times read this book!
Easy reading. Easy to understand. Moves quickly.
Review Summary: End-Times Scam Artists Be Warned!
Date: 1999-10-20
Details: There is finally some solid, Evangelical scholarship taking non-scholarly popularizers like Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe and Pat Robertson to task. This book is dry in places, but it's handling of the past is crucial to our understanding of the present. The book does a monumental job of documenting end times paranoia from the time of the early church to today. Highly recommended...especially for those who helped make Hal Lindsey a millionaire several times over!
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