Looking into the Future: Evangelical Studies in Eschatology, ed. David W. Baker / Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism, by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Looking into the Future: Evangelical Studies in Eschatology, ed. David W. Baker. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001. 383 pp. $29.99 (paper). [Reviewed by the editor.] The worth of this volume on eschatology is not at all the astigmatic look into the future, but the penetrating glimpse it provides into the present condition of "evangelicalism." Evangelicalism is shot. The best of the evangelicals are the bizarre premillennial dispensationalists. The worst are the "open theists." Much of the...