Chapter Four: Postmillennialism (14): The Fundamental Elements of Postmillennial Eschatology (5)

Previous article in this series: June 2011, p. 397. Preterism An exception to the rule that postmillennialism is and must be preterist in its interpretation of the biblical passages that prophesy dark days for the church towards the end is the seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed theologian Wilhelmus a Brakel. As a prominent member of the theological movement known as the "further reformation,"¹ Brakel was heavily influenced by the English Puritans. He was an ardent postmillennialist. Brakel...