Hans-Lukas Kieser, a historian with expertise in both Ottoman history and Protestant theology, points out, "After 1918, there was no more missionary America in the sense of the century before; no more confidence and commitment for a
postmillennialist mission, a Jesus-centered building up of modern institutions and civil society....
After some probing questions about whether I was a pretribulational premillennialist, a
postmillennialist, or just an a millennialist, he popped the inevitable question: "Have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior?" Having mentioned being Catholic, I was worried he'd be obligated now to call security and block all exit doors until this wayward soul saw the light and was truly born again.
(68) He was a
postmillennialist who saw the final millennium as a time when the church would be kept "toiling on earth," (69) and his Sermons on Deuteronomy include extensive exegesis of Deuteronomy's case laws.
(1.) The socialist-utopian
postmillennialist (criticized by Murray Rothbard and other libertarians) uses civil government as the primary tool that forces people into moral patterns of behavior, with little recognition of the inherent problems of government force.
His early objections, indicated in the article, were to voluntary societies replacing the church in mission, and had nothing to do with his millennialist convictions, which were
postmillennialist in any case, unlike the "radical Millerites", with whom he is paired (pp.
Moreover, he argued that the church is the incarnation of the Christ--Spirit on earth and is
postmillennialist, that is, Christ has already come (Kerr, 1966).
As an ardent
postmillennialist pietist, Ely was convinced that he was serving God and Christ as well.
Are you premillennialist,
postmillennialist or amillennialist?
Camping is an amillennialist as opposed to a pre- or
postmillennialist, since his scenario does not include a literal thousand-year golden age.
Should the reading be temporal: pre- or
postmillennialist, or related to the present Church rather than to future expectation; or a-temporal and concentrated on the purely symbolic value of traditional eschatology?