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Apocalypticism and millennialism : shaping a believers church eschatology for the twenty-first century / edited by Loren L. Johns.

Contributor(s): Johns, Loren L
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the believers church tradition: 2.Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 419 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0968346294Subject(s): Apocalyptic literature -- Congresses | Millennialism -- Congresses | Eschatology -- Congresses | Free churches -- Doctrines -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Making prophecy come true: human responsibility for the end of the world / James E. Brenneman -- Lions and ovens and visions, o my! a satirical analysis of the Book of Daniel / David M. Valeta -- Learning from the legacy of Jewish apocalyptic literature in the Second Temple period / James C. VanderKam -- Living with the apocalyptic: the Jewish experience in antiquity: a response to VanderKam / John Kampen -- The eschatology of Jesus: is apocalyptic really the mother of Christian theology / William Klassen -- The rule of God in Jesus' teaching: a response to Klassen / Dorothy Jean Weaver -- Reading the past, present, and future in Revelation / J. Denny Weaver -- Triumph in tribulation: Revelation in the life of the church / John R. Yeatts -- Millennial and a millennial expectations in Christian eschatology: ancient and medieval views / Everett Ferguson -- Rethinking Anabaptist apocalypticism / Lois Y. Barrett -- Jonathan Edwards's vision of the end times / Rachel S. Stahle -- A millennial heuristic: diversity and division in the Stone-Campbell Movement and prospects for contemporary believers church eschatology / Kevin James Gilbert -- Harriet Livermore, pilgrim stranger: riding a fast horse east of Eden to the New Jerusalem / Scott Holland -- Jonas Stutzmann: the Amish man who wore all white and built a chair for Jesus / Gregory Hartzler-Miller --
A Mennonite apocalypse: Claas Epp's timetable for the second coming / Dallas Wiebe -- 666 and all that : prophetic belief in America from the Puritans to the present / Paul Boyer -- Defining a more adequate believers church hermeneutic: a response to Boyer / C. Norman Kraus -- How John Nelson Darby went visiting: dispensational premillennialism in the believers church tradition and the historiography of fundamentalism / William V. Trollinger, Jr. -- Outlines of contemporary believers church eschatology: a dialogue with James McClendon / Thomas Finger -- Eschatology and social ethics in ecumenical perspective: reflections on the Prague Consultations / Walter Sawatsky -- Better safe than sorry? preparation, and the foreclosing of the future / Susan Biesecker-Mast -- Prophecy for the people: the significance of the eschatology of Hal Lindsey for the believers church / Robert G. Clouse -- Assessing the "left behind" phenomenon / Daniel Hertzler -- Facing Revelation's beasts: the opportunities and challenges of pastoral ministry at the edge of history / Loren L. Johns -- Evoking an alternative consciousness: a response to Johns / Ron Guengerich -- Armageddon anxiety and Satan's six pack: a pastoral response / John Dey.

Proceedings of the 13th believers church conference, held at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio, on Aug. 8-10, 1999.

Copublished with Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Making prophecy come true: human responsibility for the end of the world / James E. Brenneman -- Lions and ovens and visions, o my! a satirical analysis of the Book of Daniel / David M. Valeta -- Learning from the legacy of Jewish apocalyptic literature in the Second Temple period / James C. VanderKam -- Living with the apocalyptic: the Jewish experience in antiquity: a response to VanderKam / John Kampen -- The eschatology of Jesus: is apocalyptic really the mother of Christian theology / William Klassen -- The rule of God in Jesus' teaching: a response to Klassen / Dorothy Jean Weaver -- Reading the past, present, and future in Revelation / J. Denny Weaver -- Triumph in tribulation: Revelation in the life of the church / John R. Yeatts -- Millennial and a millennial expectations in Christian eschatology: ancient and medieval views / Everett Ferguson -- Rethinking Anabaptist apocalypticism / Lois Y. Barrett -- Jonathan Edwards's vision of the end times / Rachel S. Stahle -- A millennial heuristic: diversity and division in the Stone-Campbell Movement and prospects for contemporary believers church eschatology / Kevin James Gilbert -- Harriet Livermore, pilgrim stranger: riding a fast horse east of Eden to the New Jerusalem / Scott Holland -- Jonas Stutzmann: the Amish man who wore all white and built a chair for Jesus / Gregory Hartzler-Miller --

A Mennonite apocalypse: Claas Epp's timetable for the second coming / Dallas Wiebe -- 666 and all that : prophetic belief in America from the Puritans to the present / Paul Boyer -- Defining a more adequate believers church hermeneutic: a response to Boyer / C. Norman Kraus -- How John Nelson Darby went visiting: dispensational premillennialism in the believers church tradition and the historiography of fundamentalism / William V. Trollinger, Jr. -- Outlines of contemporary believers church eschatology: a dialogue with James McClendon / Thomas Finger -- Eschatology and social ethics in ecumenical perspective: reflections on the Prague Consultations / Walter Sawatsky -- Better safe than sorry? preparation, and the foreclosing of the future / Susan Biesecker-Mast -- Prophecy for the people: the significance of the eschatology of Hal Lindsey for the believers church / Robert G. Clouse -- Assessing the "left behind" phenomenon / Daniel Hertzler -- Facing Revelation's beasts: the opportunities and challenges of pastoral ministry at the edge of history / Loren L. Johns -- Evoking an alternative consciousness: a response to Johns / Ron Guengerich -- Armageddon anxiety and Satan's six pack: a pastoral response / John Dey.

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