Sorting out evangelical options
By Stanley J. Grenz
Jesus is coming back!
But ask, "When will he return? Before or after the millennium? What will the millennium be like? What exactly is our hope?" And you enter a bewildering maze of options all claiming to be the right one.
In this book Stanley J. Grenz provides historical and biblical, as well as theological, perspective on the four major positions held by evangelicals--postmillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, historic premillennialism and amillennialism. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each position, he seeks to cut a new path through the maze that reaffirms the valid insights of each and sounds a fresh note of hope in an age of shattered illusions.
As an added bonus readers will find that Grenz takes note of some of the latest developments in the dialog between dispensationalists and covenant theologians. The result has been some modifications in long-held positions that have brought the two groups closer together.
"This book is a marvelous contribution to the millennium question. It combines clarity with profundity, erudition with simplicity, history with contemporary relevance, grace with honest appraisals. It's a book that deserves wide circulation."
--Bruce Waltke, Regent College
"The Millennial Maze offers a clear, responsible and much-needed current discussion of the major evangelical millennial views. Because the discussion is set in the context of the relevance of eschatology to present life, this work also makes a helpful contribution to the task of Christian world-view formation. This is a book that needed to be written, and Grenz here serves the evangelical community well."
--Bruce Ware, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The Author:
Stanley J. Grenz is professor of theology and ethics, Carey/Regent College in Vancouver. Together with Roger E. Olson, he is the author of 20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age.
ISBN 0-8308-1757-3
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