Friday, March 30, 2007

Millennial Views

I have been looking into eschatology again recently. I thought it might be interesting to post a listing of the four commonly held Millennial views with the names of notable men who have subscribed to each of them. Most of the following list comes from R.C. Sproul's book The Last Days According to Jesus. I have also added a few names to each of the categories that Dr. Sproul did not include in the book...

Dispensational Premillennialists:

David Jeremiah

Hal Lindsey

J.N. Darby

Thomas Ice

Norman Geisler

Lewis S. Chafer

Charles Ryrie

Tim LaHaye

Harry A. Ironside

J. Dwight Pentecost

Zola Levitt

Gleason L. Archer

Donald G. Barnhouse

John F. MacArthur


Historical Premillennialists:

Irenaeus

Tertullian

Justin Martyr

Papias

R.A. Torrey

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (I think)

J. Barton Payne

Wayne Grudem

Mark Dever

John Piper

D. A. Carson


Amillennialists:

Jay E. Adams

G.C. Berkouwer

Louis Berkof

John Frame

Anthony A. Hoekema

Abraham Kuyper

James R. White

Willain Hndreickson

C.J. Mahaney

Iain H. Murray

Sinclair Ferguson


Postmillennialists:

Athanasius

Augustine

Eusebius

John Calvin

Robert Lewis Dabney

Jonathan Edwards

A. A. Hodge

Charles Hodge

R. C. Sproul Sr.

R. C. Sproul Jr.

J. Gresham Machen

R. J. Rushdoony

Augustus H. Strong

B. B. Warfield

Gary DeMar

J. H. Thornwell

John Owen

John Murray

Gary North


Undecided:

Rhett Kelley

3 comments:

Gordan said...

I am sorely dissappointed that my name is absent from your list of Postmillennialists.

I do know that Spurgeon was a Historicalist, believing that the Revelation unfolds all of Church history from the apostles to the parousia, but many of those types were/are not premil.

Bryan said...

Hey, I too am looking more into the millennial issue. I was a dispensationalist, then was a historical premiller. Now I'm a partial pret with a leaning to Amill.

Machine Gun Kelley said...

When I first started this blog, I was a pre-trib/pre-mill... Now I'm leaning partial pret and post-mill, but I'm still working it all out in my head....