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Synthesizing
Four Views
of the
Return of Christ
--Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal--
by
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John Noe _
( Copyright © 2001, by John Noe )
This material was originally presented and read as
a theological paper at the 53rd Annual Meeting of
the Evangelical Theological Society, November
2001, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
INTRODUCTION
No consensus has ever existed in the field of eschatology. Truly, it is
"a highly complex subject" that is filled with "disagreement"
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and "a variety of
eschatological theories."
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But in the nineteen-plus centuries of Church history,
three major eschatological views have evolved. Each is centered on the return
of Christ. They are the "three major views on the time and nature of this [the]
1
Henry A. Virkler, Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, 1981), 190.
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Ibid., 201.