The Long Defeat (8) – Conclusion
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Tolkien was not a premillennialist, or even an evangelical. But Tolkien’s imaginative oeuvre is...
The Long Defeat (7) – Premillennialism and the Kingdom Before the Kingdom
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The diagram above illustrates how the three major schools of eschatology relate to one...
The Long Defeat (6) – Premillennialism and the Glory of Lost Causes
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Premillennialism is called pessimistic because it teaches that evil will grow, a great apostasy...
The Long Defeat (5) – Premillennialism and Power
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In a letter to Milton Waldman, Tolkien explained much of the meaning and purpose...
The Long Defeat (4) – Premillennialism and the Mortality of Culture
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Since premillennialists are accused of a pessimistic eschatology, it is with some glee that...
The Long Defeat (3) – Premillennialism and the Eucatastrophe
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J.R.R. Tolkien felt there should be another word in the English language. Taking the...
The Long Defeat (2)- Helpful Pessimism in Middle Earth
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Premillennialists are told that their hermeneutic must be faulty because its pessimism is contrary...
The Long Defeat (1) – The Poignant Beauty of Premillennialism
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Those who reject and critique premillennial eschatology may have several reasons for doing so....
Reconciling Over Reverence- A Proposed Solution
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Will Christians ever agree on whether certain acts of worship are reverent? In glory,...
Parsing Reverence With the Past
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Resolving the debate over expressions of reverence is difficult. More than one reason could...