Who Said That?

Who Said That?

"However improbable it may seem that the whole world should be Christianized, we know that God is able to perform what he has promised. . . . A future generation will witness the rapidity of its progress; and long before the end of time. . . Christianity will gain a complete triumph over all false religions; and the visible kingdom of Satan will be destroyed, or reduced without narrow limits, during the happy period when, in the figurative language of the Apocalypse, `he shall be bound.'"

No google searches!  Leave your guess in the comments section below.

Update on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 11:43AM by Kim Riddlebarger

These words come from Scottish theologian John Dick (1764-1833), in his Lectures on Theology (156), which was widely used at Princeton Theological Seminary.

These words illustrate both the best and worst of postmillennialism.  On the one hand, Dick correctly believes the kingdom of God will spread to the ends of the earth.  While, on the other, Dick incorrectly argues that the kingdom of God will triumph over all forms of unbelief before the eschaton.  I'm with Vos (and not Warfield) on this one.  Christ comes to save the earth (Vos), he does not return to a saved earth (Warfield).

Comments

[mholst]

Doug Wilson wrote a book entitled "Black and Tan" (he likes beer analogies) on the supposed true account of slavery in the South during the Civil War. Anyway, he is a reconstructionist who argues for the validity of slavery, so the natural assumption would be that when the world is Christianized slavery would be a natural extension of that.

[Mike Ratliff]

Some Postmillinalist.

[turmeric]

Some posties are toasties!:)