The Coming of the Millennium: Good News for the Whole Human Race

by Darrell J. Fasching

Book Overview

Throughout the last two millennia Christianity understood its divinely mandated mission to be "to conquer the world for Christ." Too often this proclamation led Christians to imagine that their goal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595168507
• ISBN13: 9780595168507
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Very liberal interpretation of Christianity.

I took Dr. Fasching's Summer 2007 class entitled "Life After Death," and this was one of the books that we had to read for extra credit. It was honestly an informative and well-written book. However, Dr. Fasching's view of Christianity is very liberal -- almost too liberal. I respect his view of Christianity and his own faith, but I must say that his views represent a very silent, minuscule minority of Christians. It was almost painful to hear how liberally Christianity was interpreted, and at times I found it unbelievable to accept that the Bible "welcomes" non-Christians as not only strangers but as God's own. Sure, it's a nice thought, to think that the Christian God is welcoming and all that, but I put little hope in the words of a book which tell us that the "lost" will be damned for eternity. Regardless, it is also a somewhat refreshing viewpoint, and a well-deserved change from the all-too-familiar condemnatory Christianity. As much as I'd like to believe in his view of Christianity (I'm an atheist), his words just pale in comparison to the fiery rhetoric which has been perpetuated by the Evangelical Christians in America and other fundamentalists around the world. To me, organized religion has only one mission: to amass as many followers as possible, in an effort to eradicate individuality for the sake of a singular identity under a common belief system.