He Shall Have Dominion

Preface
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the “consistent preterist” research and insight into eschatology, I am
convinced that they have gone too far. And I hope they will, with further
study and analysis, make the necessary corrections and return to a more
orthodox view of the second advent and the Resurrection. But since that
movement is making its presence felt and I receive correspondence
asking for my thoughts, I deemed it necessary to provide at least a brief
analysis of some of the problems I have with its positions. Especially
since some dispensationalists confuse my orthodox preterism wither
their heterodox form.
The postmillennial reader will be encouraged to know that Zondervan
will be publishing a three views book on eschatology in 1997. That work,
under the editorship of Darrell L. Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary,
will present the progressive dispensational viewpoint (Craig Blaising,
Dallas Theological Seminary), the amillennial viewpoint (Richard B. Gaffin,
Westminster Theological Seminary), and the reconstructionist postmillennial
viewpoint (me, Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.). The postmillennial viewpoint,
assumed by many to be dead, is coming back — as any postmillennialist
would expect. Therefore we remember with joy and hope
that we must not “despise the day of small things” (Zec 4:10).
First Edition
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Th.D.
June 28, 1996