Jash Comstock
Puritan Board Freshman
Could someone explain the various types of preterism to me?
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Could someone explain the various types of preterism to me?
Could someone explain the various types of preterism to me?
Some forms of Preterism are utterly heretical, sometimes called "hyper-preterism" or "full-preterism"; people taking things to ridiculous and biblically unjustified extremes and falling off the edge into the abyss, sometimes reacting to a prior grounding in dispensationslism and futurism. Those who say that the second advent, the resurrection of the righteous and wicked and the judgment day happened in the first century are heretics and their writings are to be avoided.
Many/most(?) orthodox commentators will see some reference to the events of the first century in the Olivet Discourse, and also to some extent in the Apocalypse, but I think they are off kilter and maybe reacting to futurism when they try to squeeze all of Revelation 5-19 into the first century (Gentry), or into the period up to the Fall of Rome (Bahnsen).
Traditionally postmillenialists have been historicist or a mix of historicist and idealist. Some of the reconstructionists/theonomians sic (theonomists) have taken a more radical preterist approach and sought to popularose it.