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One has to admire Gentry and Mathison for their willingness to tackle this subject. Gary DeMar frankly disclaims any responsibility to address hyperpreterism, claiming it is someone else's job. But if the orthodox preterists like the aforementioned writers or Hank Hanegraaf or Tom Wright are going to argue for a preterist understanding of NT apocalyptic, then they are going to have to address the theological consequences of their actions.
One need only peruse some of the one-star reviews of this book to know that hyperpreterists are nothing if not passionate about their theories. While there are certainly some who have become arrogant cultists, many if not most I suspect can still be reached, as the careers of Roderick Edwards and Todd Dennis show. But if they are reached, I don't think it is going to be by this book. Why? Because pointing to the creeds is not going to be convincing for someone who does not accept the creeds' authority.
The question of how to reconcile the dogmatic core of Christianity that "Christ will come again," with the exegetical insights that find the coming of the Kingdom in the life of Jesus and his disciples, will require a work of constructive theology of real genius. And let's face it: evangelicals do not produce works of theological genius, instead living off of the borrowed capital of Luther, Calvin and their associates. We may admire that the seminaries represented by the men in this volume teach the historic Christian faith, but they are out of their depth in addressing this profound a question.

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New Jersey : P&R Publ..,
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xxii,376p.; 23 cm.
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English
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