biblelighthouse
Puritan Board Junior
Originally posted by Peter
(BTW, I am aware that there have been some postmils, like J. Edwards, who espoused a literal future millennium . . . I am obviously not talking about them.)
The majority of postmills historically. As you have pointed out there is no difference between optimistic amills and the current trend of postmillennialism popularized by RJ Rushdoony. This form of postmill is infact amillennialism, but as fred said, amillennialism became pessimistic and i believe those with a positive eschatology felt the need to distinguish themselves from the doom-and-gloomers.
Very cool! I just learned something!
In that case, call me what you like: postmil, or optimistic amil.
For what it's worth, I subscribe to Dr. Kenneth Gentry's flavor or Postmil.