Second Thoughts on the Second Coming: Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope - Softcover

Allen, Ronald J.; Cornwall, Robert D.

 
9780664268060: Second Thoughts on the Second Coming: Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0664268064 ISBN 13: 9780664268060
Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Various ideas float around about the subject of last things, leading many Christians to conclude that they don't know what to think about the subject. Yet at the core of the Christian doctrine of last things lies two simple and complementary hopes: that God ever and always offers hope for our individual futures and for the future of the whole world. In this helpful book, Allen and Cornwall explain how we don't have to subscribe to sensationalist theories or sketchy interpretations to believe in Christian hope. They walk the reader through the central biblical teachings on last things and then show the ways the church has interpreted those teachings throughout the centuries. In a respectful way, the authors demonstrate that end-time beliefs centered on the Rapture came into existence only recently, and they then offer several more life-affirming, contemporary interpretations as alternatives. The book includes a study guide and web-based appendixes designed to help pastors develop both topical and lectionary-based sermon series on Christian hope. You can access free digital preaching resources created by the authors to help preachers engage the second coming in the pulpit, including multiple sermon series options as well as approaches for those preaching from the Revised Common Lectionary. These can be found at www.wjkbooks.com/SecondComing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ronald J. Allen is Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Gospels and Letters at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has written or edited more than forty books, including A Faith of Your Own: Naming What You Really Believe.

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Verlag
Westminster John Knox Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0664268064
ISBN 13 
9780664268060
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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