“The eschatological concern of evangelical, Protestant Christianity in the twentieth century has not been on ethics and Christians ‘ responsibility – ethical cause and effect in history - but rather on the transcending of Christians ‘ responsibility through a future divine intervention into history, either to setup Jesus ‘ One World State bureaucracy (premillennialism) or to remove sinners f rom history by ending history (amillennialism). The eschatological focus has been on our legitimate (because eschatologically inevitable) escape f rom corporate responsibility as Christians. The psychological motivation has been the quest for theological justification for the Christians ‘ escape f rom any obligation to work to extend the kingdom (civilization) of God in history: bystander Christianity. Eschatology has been employed to justify retroactively the fact that the Protestant Church since 1660 has not accomplished much in the way of presenting an explicitly biblical alternative to the competing worldviews of the many forms of covenant -breaking. There is a reason for this lack of an alternative: a missing link. This missing link is a theory of cause and effect in history.”
from the Preface to Ken Gentry’s, “He Shall Have Dominion”…
