Preterism
One of the main reasons, I suppose, why the obvious way of reading the chapter has been ignored for so long must be the fact that in a good deal of Christian theology the fall of Jerusalem has had no theological significance. This has meant not only that Mark 13 is found puzzling, but also that all the references to the same event elsewhere in the gospels -- even where it stares one in the face, as in Luke 13:1-5 -- have been read as general warnings of hellfire in an afterlife, rather than the literal and physical divine-judgment-through-Roman-judgment that we have seen to be characteristic of Jesus' story.
N.T. Wright Jesus and the Victory of God pg. 343-4
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Preterist Archive  |
Extensive collection of pro-Preterist writings as well as debates and critiques. |
| Early Christian Preterism (70 AD - 1000 AD) |
The Preterist Archive |
| The Beast of Revelation |
Kenneth Gentry (online book) |
| The Significance of A.D. 70 |
Ken Gentry |
| The Preterist Interpretation of the Seventieth Week of Daniel |
Philip Mauro - A Study of the Last Two Visions of Daniel, and of the Olivet Discourse of the Lord Jesus Christ |
| A Response to the Preterist Interpretation of the Olivet Discourse |
Jonathan H. Barlow - Matthew 24 |
| Two Dozen (or so) Orthodox Arguments Against Hyper-Preterism |
Paul Manata |
| The Allurement of Hymenaen Preterism: The Rise of "Dispensable Eschatology" |
Jim West - 1 Timothy 2:17-18, "Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have wandered away from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some." |
| A Brief Theological Analysis of Hyper-Preterism |
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. |
| Hyper-Preterism and Unfolding Biblical Eschatology |
Richard L. Pratt, Jr. (.pdf) |
| Postmillennial and Anti-Praeterist Writing |
Various Authors |
| A Ccritique of Full Preterism and a Defense of Historicistic Post-Millennialism |
J. Parnell McCarter |
| This Generation Shall Not Pass, Till All These Things be Fulfilled |
Tony Warren |
| Preterism, Partial Preterism and Full Preterism |
Variety of Authors |
| Full Preterism Refuted, Part One |
Brian Schwertley - An Exposition of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 |
| Full Preterism Refuted, Part 2: The Resurrection of the Body |
Brian Schwertley |