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Perspectives on Israel and the Church: Four Views is unavailable, but you can change that!

The relationship between Israel and the church is one of the most debated issues in the history of theology. Some hold the view that there is almost seamless continuity between Israel and the church, while others believe there is very little continuity. Additional perspectives lie between these two. This debate has contributed to the formation of denominations and produced a variety of political...

approach would be taken up by Augustine and especially by many later representatives of the amillennial school of interpretation.11 In his early writings, Augustine (fourth and early fifth centuries) followed the basic approach to eschatology hammered out by Justin Martyr and others, known as Chiliasm or premillennialism.12 He conceived of history as consisting of six ages, followed by a “golden age” in which there would be peace and cosmic renewal.13 The seventh age would be the millennium, interpreted
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