Signs of the times

Paul Cook  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Apr 2006
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PRISONERS OF HOPE?
Aspects of Evangelical Millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880
Edited by Crawford Gribben & Timothy C.F. Stunt. Paternoster. 206 pages. £19.99
ISBN 1 84227 224 1

This is not a popular book. Written by scholars for scholars, the eight essays trace the development of evangelical thinking on the subject of the millennium between 1800-80.

Little attempt is made to define or explain the theological terms used, and there is virtually no reference to Scripture. No justification is given for the concept of a millennium for which the biblical evidence is somewhat obscure. The reader is expected to know all this, and much else besides.

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