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Podcast: Author's Corner: Interviews about the Latest Christian Books
Episode: The Fathers on the Future, by Michael Svigel
Description: Today, Roberta talks to Michael Svigel about his new book The Fathers on the Future: A 2nd-Century Eschatology for the 21st-Century Church, available from Hendrickson Academic publishers.Many today with an interest in eschatology face a problem: They have forgotten the past. Incorporating the basic foundation and structure of the second-century premillennial, futurist eschatology of Irenaeus of Lyons and other church fathers, this book develops and defends their positions through a thorough exegetical, theological analysis. It makes a case for a contemporary Irenaean premillennial eschatology, arguing that it is a reliable framework for a biblically defensible, theologically...