Problems with Preterism

An Eschatology Built upon Exegetical Fallacies, Mistranslations, and the Misunderstanding of a Genre

Bryan C. Hodge

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781666798319, 9781666798302
• eBook ISBN: 9781666798326
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Preterism is the belief that the majority, if not all, of the eschatological passages in the New Testament have already been fulfilled in the first century. Although there are some needed correctives that preterism provides when interpreting eschatological statements in the Synoptic Gospels, the interpretive methodologies employed are largely plagued with exegetical and logical fallacies. On top of these, the genre of apocalyptic is often completely lost on the modern interpreter and as a result leads to numerous non sequiturs made when it comes to the nature and time of biblical eschatology.This book seeks to correct these hermeneutical missteps by providing exegetical principles that may help guide the reader to a more biblically sound conclusion concerning the timing and nature of biblical eschatology.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Exegetical Fallacies in General Eschatological Interpretation
• Chapter 2: The Genre of Apocalyptic
• Chapter 3: Three Arguments that Clarify the Timing of Biblical Eschatology
• Chapter 4: Three Arguments That Clarify the Nature of Biblical Eschatology
• Chapter 5: Preterist Prooftexts concerning Time References
• Conclusion
• Appendix: A Critique of Preterists’ Three Strongest Evidences that the Book of Revelation Is Written before A.D. 70
• Bibliography