A meme posted to social media insisted, “In the U.S., vacant houses outnumber homeless people.”
And the point is?
Shouldn’t it also be asked why is the person homeless?
From this study, it becomes apparent that the End Times and consummation of all things is not solely a concern of the twentieth and twenty-first century church. Rather this outlook has been a part of the conceptual framework of…
Though history is linear in that it is moving towards an ultimate destination rather than circular in the sense of rigid absolute recurrence, it cannot be denied that the dynamics of human development and unfolding events do often…
At the time of this writing in the early decades of the twenty-first century, to the unsuspecting it seems unlikely that…
The friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Antonin Scalia is being celebrated as ideal, even by conservatives. So apparently the lives of the unborn aren’t that big of a deal after all. She was more than someone that might have had an abortion in the past. Rather she has been…
Dispensationalist premillennialism and apocalypticism held to the Biblical warning that the days are waxing worse and worse. However, in terms of the opportunity to spread such a message and the pervasiveness of its influence, there…
The Great Disappointment served as a warning that an interpretative eschatological system needed to be formulated that incorporated what many believed to be the portion of divine revelation yet to be fulfilled while protecting those…
The early modern period roughly from the time of the Reformation up approximately to the time of the First World War could probably be considered an era of apocalyptic ambiguity. For it was during this time that interest in the…
When confronted with the idea of Transhumanism (the idea that human beings ought to embrace the advancement of the abilities of the species beyond our traditional limitations often through the application of science and technology), the average person…
With Augustinian theology elevated to the status of the defacto official position of the Roman Catholic Church, eschatology was downplayed in terms of an emphasized doctrine. However, that did not necessarily mean that assorted…