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This final volume begins with ecclesiology, the study of the miracle of Christ’s church (local and universal, visible and invisible). Geisler examines its origin, nature, government, ordinances, ministry, and relation to the state. Last Things contains an in-depth study of the final resurrection, the final status of the saved and the lost, and the theories of purgatory and annihilationism. He...

Eschatology (the study of Last Things) is notorious for divergent views. Much of this is due to the different methods of interpreting prophecy employed by opposing positions. The basic debate is between what are commonly known as the literal and allegorical schools of interpretation. The issue is actually more complicated, since, as we shall see, both sides lay claim to the literal historical-grammatical method (of interpretation). As such, the debate
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