07-06-2010, 06:00 AM
07-06-2010, 04:47 PM
That's a very interesting monograph, brother. The author gets a number of things badly wrong: for example, propounding the hackneyed old myth that John Darby was the father of the "Rapture" doctrine. He doesn't give proper attention to the theological underpinnings of the Abolitionist movement, which was thoroughly Amillennial or Postmillennial; or the early role of those theologies in the Prohibition movement. He's wrong about the Civil War being the "death knell" of American Postmillennialism; actually, it was World War I. Nor does he give proper attention to Amillennialism, which is the majority position among mainline churches nowadays. Throughout the monograph, I detect a very notable absence of original thinking.
As someone said about a certain book once: "This book is both interesting and accurate. But the parts that are interesting are not accurate, and the parts that are accurate are not interesting."
But thanks for sharing it. I'm surprised that the Army even found the subject worthy of a monograph, although it may be part of an overall government trend to analyze and combat Christianity in America. I don't think that was the author's intent; but it may have been the intent of the officers who approved the monograph.
Meanwhile, they pretend that Islam isn't a threat. They have to: Commanders-in-Chief Bush and Obama have told them to.
As someone said about a certain book once: "This book is both interesting and accurate. But the parts that are interesting are not accurate, and the parts that are accurate are not interesting."
But thanks for sharing it. I'm surprised that the Army even found the subject worthy of a monograph, although it may be part of an overall government trend to analyze and combat Christianity in America. I don't think that was the author's intent; but it may have been the intent of the officers who approved the monograph.
Meanwhile, they pretend that Islam isn't a threat. They have to: Commanders-in-Chief Bush and Obama have told them to.
07-08-2010, 09:32 AM
(07-06-2010 04:47 PM)William Wrote: [ -> ]That's a very interesting monograph, brother. The author gets a number of things badly wrong: for example, propounding the hackneyed old myth that John Darby was the father of the "Rapture" doctrine. He doesn't give proper attention to the theological underpinnings of the Abolitionist movement, which was thoroughly Amillennial or Postmillennial; or the early role of those theologies in the Prohibition movement. He's wrong about the Civil War being the "death knell" of American Postmillennialism; actually, it was World War I. Nor does he give proper attention to Amillennialism, which is the majority position among mainline churches nowadays. Throughout the monograph, I detect a very notable absence of original thinking.
As someone said about a certain book once: "This book is both interesting and accurate. But the parts that are interesting are not accurate, and the parts that are accurate are not interesting."
But thanks for sharing it. I'm surprised that the Army even found the subject worthy of a monograph, although it may be part of an overall government trend to analyze and combat Christianity in America. I don't think that was the author's intent; but it may have been the intent of the officers who approved the monograph.
Meanwhile, they pretend that Islam isn't a threat. They have to: Commanders-in-Chief Bush and Obama have told them to.
Indeed beloved brother. But what else can we expect from the world? It is as you say they PRETEND that Islam isn't a threat.
God Bless.