Post by Josh on Feb 4, 2014 13:05:19 GMT -8
Ok, this is more of a subjective observation at this point, but I recently read through good portions of Steve Gregg's Revelation: 4 views and something stood out to me- namely the degree of divergence of opinion within each viewpoint.
What I notice is this: Preterism has the lowest amount of divergence in it's interpretation, and almost all of that divergence concerns the final chapters of Revelation. Futurism has a fairly high degree of diverenge in it's interpretations as it attempts to translate the images into 20-21 st century realities and gets bogged down in the classic Pre-Trib, Post-Trib debates. But by and large it seems that the Historicist viewpoint has the most divergence among it's adherents, with Historicist interpreters often agreeing only that various portions of the book are describing Church history at some point, but almost without exception applying certain passages to scores of different historical referents, often separated by hundreds of years.
This seems like a definite weakness to the Historicist view, and to the Futurist view, and, conversely a strength in the interpretive grid of the Preterist.
Agree/ disagree? Why?
What I notice is this: Preterism has the lowest amount of divergence in it's interpretation, and almost all of that divergence concerns the final chapters of Revelation. Futurism has a fairly high degree of diverenge in it's interpretations as it attempts to translate the images into 20-21 st century realities and gets bogged down in the classic Pre-Trib, Post-Trib debates. But by and large it seems that the Historicist viewpoint has the most divergence among it's adherents, with Historicist interpreters often agreeing only that various portions of the book are describing Church history at some point, but almost without exception applying certain passages to scores of different historical referents, often separated by hundreds of years.
This seems like a definite weakness to the Historicist view, and to the Futurist view, and, conversely a strength in the interpretive grid of the Preterist.
Agree/ disagree? Why?
