The Second Advent, Or, What do The Scriptures Teach Respecting The Second Coming Of Christ, The End Of The World - Softcover

Alpheus Crosby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371864038 ISBN 13: 9780371864036

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The Second Advent, Or, What do The Scriptures Teach Respecting The Second Coming Of Christ, The End Of The World, The Resurrection Of The Dead, And The General Judgment? by Alpheus Crosby is a compact theological inquiry into biblical eschatology. Crosby presents a single, near-coming Second Advent that would be accompanied by the end of the world, the resurrection of the dead, and the general judgment, and he argues against later millennial schemes or the notion of multiple future comings. Structured as a sequence of propositions, the book surveys New Testament teaching, noting that Jesus, the Apostles, and early Christians treat the return as a definite event to be expected in the lifetime of contemporaries, and often in connection with the establishment of the messianic kingdom. Crosby critiques traditional hermeneutics, urging careful, principled interpretation that favors figurative or spiritual readings of prophetic language over a strictly literal apocalypse. An Appendix collects extracts from eminent theologians to illustrate interpretive methods. The book situates itself within mid-19th-century debates on how scripture speaks about the end times.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371864038
• ISBN 13: 9780371864036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192