Kingdom come : : revisioning Pentecostal eschatology / / Matthew K. Thompson.

• Superior document: Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series ; 37
• VerfasserIn: Thompson, Matthew K., 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Blandford Forum, Dorset, England : : Deo Publishing,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Journal of Pentecostal theology. Supplement series ; 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In his Pentecostal Spirituality: A Passion for the Kingdom (1993), theologian Steven J. Land issued a clarion call for Pentecostal theologians to reconsider eschatology outside the categories of premillennial dispensationalism. Kingdom Come: Revisioning Pentecostal Eschatology is Matthew Thompson’s constructive answer to Land’s invitation. Thompson persuasively argues that Pentecostalism’s adoption of premillennial dispensationalism as a hermeneutic, as a philosophy of history and as an eschatology robs the movement of the potential for dynamic growth and of profound experiences of the power of the Holy Spirit. Thompson concludes his account with an engagement of the eschatologies of John Fletcher, Jürgen Moltmann and Sergius Bulgakov in order to construct what he terms a genuinely Pentecostal eschatology formulated thematically through the lens of the five-fold Pentecostal Full Gospel.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- The Descent of the Latter Rain: The Rise of Pentecostalism -- ‘History Written in Advance’: Classical Dispensationalism and the Eclipse of Biblical Eschatology in Popular Christianity -- Strange Bedfellows: An Analysis and Critique of the Pentecostal Adoption and Adaptation of Scofieldian Dispensationalism -- Part II -- Faith of Our Fathers: The Trinitarian Pneumatology of Gregory of Nazianzus -- The Way of Salvation: John Wesley and John Fletcher on Full Salvation -- The End is the New Beginning: Contemporary Voices, East and West -- Part III -- The Second Coming of Word and Spirit: The Parousia in Pneumatological Perspective -- The Power and the Glory: The Cosmic Pentecost and the Entire Sanctification of the Universe -- Heaven is a Place on Earth: The Final Healing and Justification of the Cosmos -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Biblical References -- Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series.