RamistThomist
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This may or may not have been posted already, but even if it has it is worth Reposting.
A Defense of (Reformed) Amillennialism
This piece by Prof. David J. Engelsma is wonderful.
I hope it is better than his book on the Spiritual Kingdom.
Did not read it. Want to elaborate?
http://beretta-online.com/articles/theology/engelsma1.pdf
First of all, I am not postmil so of much of the book, I don't care (it being a critique of postmil). However, at best Engelsma comes close to libeling Christian teachers. At worse he has some heterodox views which seems to contradict his own doctrinal statndards.
First of all Engelsma has a weird view: resurrection of the soul. His interpretation of Rev 20 demands such an odd construct.
And then there is just the sheer name calling in the book:
Throughout the book Prof. Engelsma frequently misrepresents the views of the postmillennial theologians he disagrees with. For example, in a chapter entitled “Jewish dreams,” he calls the postmillennial vision a “carnal” kingdom, “exactly the kind of Messianic kingdom dreamed and desired by the Jews n the days of Christ’s kingdom” [emphasis added], and he adds that postmillennialists want “Christ as the king of an earthly kingdom and … political power and earthly glory” (p 8). He goes so far as to begin slinging mud by saying that for any postmillennial brother in Christ, “Christ’s coming is not his hope, the carnal kingdom is” (p 11). It is, in fact, difficult to count the number of times Engelsma uses the term “carnal kingdom” in his book to describe the postmillennial view of the kingdom of God.
On Englesma's grounds, Ezekiel 36 and Revelation 21-22 are earthly and carnal since they portray realities that cannot seriously be spiritualized away.