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A History of the Second Coming: Christian History Interview - Hope Beyond the Details
Christians have hardly agreed about how and when Christ will return—only that he will.
interview with Richard Kyle | posted 1/01/1999 12:00AM
In this issue we've dipped into every era and shown how Christians have thought and acted about the last days. The variety is surprising and the results are sometimes horrifying.
Many books have tried to put this all into perspective, but one of the better ones is Richard Kyle's The Last Days Are Here Again: A History of the End Times (Baker, 1998). So Christian History talked with the author, professor of history and religion at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas, to find out what we might learn from the history of the end of history.
What prompted you to write a book about the history of the end times?
I was raised in the Plymouth Brethren church, and I knew of only one view—dispensational premillennialism. I didn't even know there were alternatives. As a teenager, I remember the invasion of Egypt in 1956 with Israeli, British, and French forces fighting together. This stirred up my passions in this area, but I had always been interested in the subject. In my study of church history, I became ...
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