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John Rawls

Does evangelical pessimism need a makeover?

April 25, 2012 by Randal

When I was growing up I was taught dispensational premillennialism, an eschatology (theology of last things) that has as one of its hallmarks an unshakeable pessimism about the imminent future. Basically, things will keep getting worse until Jesus returns and establishes his kingdom. Dispensational pessimism continues to form a broad swathe of North American conservative […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: dispensationalism, eschatology, evangelicalism, John Rawls, justice

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