John Calvin's exposition of that part of the Lord's Prayer all but adopts the minority postmillennial position but Calvin, and later Charles Spurgeon, were remarkably inconsistent on eschatological matters.

This is a revised edition of the classic 1957 postmillennial work.

Though these two differ greatly in their general theological orientation ( the first is strongly Reformed and Neo-Calvinistic, the second is Charismatic ), they share a postmillennial vision in which the Kingdom of God will be established on Earth through political and ( in some cases ) military means.

This is in opposition to premillennial and some postmillennial interpretations of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation.

For instance, amillennial and postmillennial Christians do not believe in the same timeline of the Second Coming as premillennialists, while preterist Christians do not interpret the Book of Revelation to predict future events at all.

It gathered strength from the postmillennial belief that the Second Coming of Christ would occur after mankind had reformed the entire earth.

It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth.

Campbell's conceptions were postmillennial, as he anticipated that the progress of the church and society would lead to an age of peace and righteousness before the return of Christ.

It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth.

Their primitivist desire for noninstitutional Christianity was influenced by liberal, postmillennial idealism, and their attitudes influenced neo-orthodox theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

This postmillennial perspective essentially dovetails with the thinking of amillennial and premillennial schools of eschatology.

There are a minority of postmillennial scholars, however, who discount the idea of a final apostasy, regarding the gospel conquest ignited by the Great Commission to be total and absolute, such that no unsaved individuals will remain after the Spirit has been fully poured out on all flesh.

Besides Iain Murray's study, The Puritan Hope, less attention has been paid in Carey's numerous biographies to his postmillennial eschatology as expressed in his major missionary manifesto, notably not even in Bruce J. Nichols ' article " The Theology of William Carey.

One exception, found in James Beck's biography of his first wife, mentions his personal optimism in the chapter on " Attitudes Towards the Future ," but not his optimistic perspective on world missions, which he derived from postmillennial theology.

While acknowledging the small number of actual adherents, authors such as Sara Diamond and Frederick Clarkson have argued that postmillennial Christian Reconstructionism played a major role in pushing the primarily premillennial Christian Right to adopt a more aggressive dominionist stance.

Rousas John Rushdoony ( 1916 – 2001 ) was the intellectual founder of Christian Reconstructionism, a postmillennial form of theocratic Dominion Theology.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

Moving as he is into the phase of the campaign which demands conviction of him, he adopts a position that is morally indefensible.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.

The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the `` anti-party group '' nearly liquidated him.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.

Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

This corresponds closely with the position of the Pharisee school of thought led by Shammai, at the start of the first millennium, with which Jesus would have been familiar.

Nevertheless its important position which kept on providing access to the Persian Gulf ensured the ongoing economical importance of the city during the second millennium BC.

It is very probable that the edict was an attempt to legitimize his position and to respond to a general unease provoked by the passing of the Roman millennium.

Delos had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

Marduk ( Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR. UTU " solar calf "; perhaps from MERI. DUG ; Biblical Hebrew Merodach ; Greek, Mardochaios ) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi ( 18th century BCE ), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BCE.

Overall New York entered the new millennium " in a position of economic strength and optimism ".

The second millennium, however, also saw the beginning of a slow erosion of the pre-eminent position held by plants as sources of therapeutic effects.

During the first millennium BC, when the holder of this office exercised her largest measure of influence, her position was an important appointment facilitating the transfer of power from one pharaoh to the next, when his daughter was adopted to fill it by the incumbent office holder.

In 1212, Teutonic Knights built the wooden castle of Dietrichstein as a fortified position in the Burzenland at the entrance to a mountain valley through which traders had travelled for more than a millennium, but in 1242 it was destroyed by the Mongols.

Elders burst into the new millennium by taking a controlling position in the German wool processor BWK, the world ’ s second largest wool tops maker with operations in Europe and Australia.

The earliest extant grave contained two young people, buried in a sitting position, dating to the late 4th millennium.

His man-of-the-match performance in a friendly against Germany at the turn of the millennium cemented his position in the national team — he set up the opening goal for Patrick Kluivert, then added his own name to the scoresheet with a thunderous volley from Ronald de Boer's corner, before nearly putting the gloss on the finish when he left the entire German defence for dead with his raw pace, beat the goalkeeper with his shot, only for it to rebound off the upright.

The new millennium continues as the last decade did, the club is able to defend its Allsvenska position in a relegation / promotion play-off against Mjällby AIF in the end of the 2000 season after penalties, Kjell Pettersson leaves the club and Torbjörn Nilsson takes over as manager.

During the first millennium BCE, when the holder of this office exercised her largest measure of influence, her position was an important appointment facilitating the transfer of power from one pharaoh to the next, when his daughter was adopted to fill it by the incumbent office holder.

The album sold 1. 5 million copies and successfully hit the top position of the Oricon chart in the first week of the millennium ( 2000 ).