Can anyone suggest works that are critical of partial preterism?
Partial Preterists are usually Amill
This is true, but Amills can be critics of preterism. For example:since Partial Preterism is contrasted with Historicism and Futurism rather than the subject of the millennium itself.
Can anyone suggest works that are critical of partial preterism?
One of the best refutations of partial preterism is to look at what the church was actually teaching about end time prophecy, only a few generations after the time partial preterists think the Revelation was fulfilled.
I made a detailed study of what these early Christian writers said, and presented it in Christian Forums here
http://www.christianforums.com/t7542790-21/
These men wrote within a few generations after partial preterists imagine these things were fulfilled, but all of them (that is, all of them whose works survived to the present day)
Nice little qualification there, because we know there were other views quite early on. Justin Martyr lived from AD 103 to 165 and was a Premil. (NOT a Dispensationalist Premil, but a Covent Premil). Here he confirms that he is a Premil, but notes there are MANY also believe otherwise!
Hi Erickson,
in answer to your question there IS an Amil critique of Partial Preterism, a brilliant little book that I just read. It's called "Revelation Unwrapped" by John Richardson. Only about $6 with free postage worldwide!
Huh?Partial Preterists are usually Amill; what you may be looking for is more of Historicist and Futurist critiques of Partial Preterism since Partial Preterism is contrasted with Historicism and Futurism rather than the subject of the millennium itself. I could even see someone being a Premill Partial Preterist.
That said, I don't know many off the top of my head.
-CryptoLutheran
OK, but why would we think that comment has anything to do with preterism? Maybe it's just talking about some Christians who deny a literal 1000 years?
OK, but why would we think that comment has anything to do with preterism? Maybe it's just talking about some Christians who deny a literal 1000 years?
Thanks for your suggestion.
Not necessarily Preterism, but Amillennialism. I was just replying to Biblewriter who tried to give the impression Premillennialism was the dominant early church belief. I was just showing that there were MANY others who did not hold to Premil beliefs.
The article you cite is seriously deceptive from beginning to end. Near the beginning it says "The early Church fathers … Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Papius, admitted that there were many other Christians who were quite orthodox and not premillennial."For further reading there are a bunch of Phd's who studied the early church and their Premillennialism. One of them sponsored by a famous Dispensationalist, and his Phd student finds the historical documents suggest a balance of views!
In 1976 Alan Patrick Boyd, a graduate student at Dallas Theological Seminary began a challenging undertaking, writing a masters thesis whose goal was to establish the prophetic faith of the early church fathers. His professor, Dr. Charles Ryrie of Dallas Seminary fame had boldly written "Premillennialism is the historic faith of the Church." But upon completing his thesis, Boyd concluded the following in response, "It is the conclusion of this thesis that Dr. Ryrie's statement is historically invalid within the chronological framework of this thesis [apostolic age through Justin Martyr]." [ 1] (Quoted by Bahnsen and Gentry, p. 235. [ 2] )
The Athanasian Creed and the Early Church: Clearly Amillennial