Gods Plan for Victory: The Meaning of Postmillennialism

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For the last 150 years or so, the dominant echatological vision of American Christianity has been decisively pessimistic-amillennial, or dispensational premillennial. The latter version captured massive sectors of Protestant conservatism – it’s churches, denominations, seminaries, Bible institutes, and missions agencies. With it came a gradual retreat from the full-orbed vision of the colonial Puritans and American Calvinists. Christianity incrementally withdrew into the four walls of the institutional church, proud of its “separation” and piety (often false piety), while liberals, and, later, secularists surged in the void. While conservative Christians had earlier pervaded education, the arts, civil government, charity, medicine, industry, and most other areas of life, by late last century a marked shift away from Christian social dominance was evident. Increased government intervention with the New Deal sealed a secular, statist approach to life, and in the 60s most of the vestiges of historic, orthodox Christianity has been erased. In addition, most Christian leaders had succumbed to the pessimistic vision, which in effect cheered the rising tide of evil on the grounds that it verified the imminent return of Christ, and the “pretibulational rapture” of the saints (if that reasoning sounds perverse that’s because it is).

Subtitle: The Meaning of Postmillennialism

Author: R.J. Rushdoony

Specifications: Booklet, 41 pages