mainstream evangelical discussions of the biblical text.33 The danger of an overreaction to the excesses of an over-realized eschatology is to minimize the importance of love, joy and hope, as well as the potential for real-time help, and most importantly for our purposes, change. While it is true that relatively little attention is paid to this phenomenon in the literature, the problem is very helpfully expressed in an excellent article by Gerald Hiestand entitled ‘Not “Just Forgiven”: How Athanasius