Eschatological Model
Assignment Outline
1. Introduction
2. Millennial Models
2.1 Postmillennialism
2.2 Amillennialism
2.3 Historical Premillennialism
2.4 Premillennial Dispensationalism
3. Drivers behind the models
3.1 Relationship between the Old and New Testaments - Prophecy
3.2 Structure of Revelation
4. Conclusion Bibliography
1. Introduction
The subject of Eschatology is vast with many differing views. The main preoccupation of Eschatological debates over the years has been around the ‘millennium’. This paper is going to describe the traditional millennial views of Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, Premillennialism and Dispensational Premillennialism as they are most broadly understood. In fact we will see that there is really only two views, the more symbolic view of a millennial age before Christ’s return and the more literal one thousand year reign after Christ’s return.
There are many variations on each of these but the objective here is to just give a general idea of what they look like. After they have been outlined we will look at what the drivers behind these models are that makes people come to these …show more content…
The reason being is that they both view the millennium as figurative and that this period is before the return of Christ. However in explaining this they do have some significant differences. As a general characteristic it is also positive, in relation to Premillennialism and Dispensationalism, but not as positive as Postmillennialism. It stops short of seeing the whole world ‘Christianised’ and allows for the presence of sin and evil in greater degree while still holding to the positive aspect of the victory that was attained in Christ’s death and resurrection. Pohlmann summarises it as follows in relation to Postmillennialism “The a-millennial position is more sceptical of the continued and global success of the Gospel Christianizing the world population”
1. Introduction
2. Millennial Models
2.1 Postmillennialism
2.2 Amillennialism
2.3 Historical Premillennialism
2.4 Premillennial Dispensationalism
3. Drivers behind the models
3.1 Relationship between the Old and New Testaments - Prophecy
3.2 Structure of Revelation
4. Conclusion Bibliography
1. Introduction
The subject of Eschatology is vast with many differing views. The main preoccupation of Eschatological debates over the years has been around the ‘millennium’. This paper is going to describe the traditional millennial views of Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, Premillennialism and Dispensational Premillennialism as they are most broadly understood. In fact we will see that there is really only two views, the more symbolic view of a millennial age before Christ’s return and the more literal one thousand year reign after Christ’s return.
There are many variations on each of these but the objective here is to just give a general idea of what they look like. After they have been outlined we will look at what the drivers behind these models are that makes people come to these …show more content…
The reason being is that they both view the millennium as figurative and that this period is before the return of Christ. However in explaining this they do have some significant differences. As a general characteristic it is also positive, in relation to Premillennialism and Dispensationalism, but not as positive as Postmillennialism. It stops short of seeing the whole world ‘Christianised’ and allows for the presence of sin and evil in greater degree while still holding to the positive aspect of the victory that was attained in Christ’s death and resurrection. Pohlmann summarises it as follows in relation to Postmillennialism “The a-millennial position is more sceptical of the continued and global success of the Gospel Christianizing the world population”