WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
Christian hope and contemporary culture
Eds. Stephen Holmes & Russell Rook. Paternoster. 244 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-84227-602-0
‘I was preaching on a text in Revelation … As preachers do when they warm to a theme, I’d left my notes some way behind. What actually came out of my mouth was: “The Left Behind series — astonishingly popular; astonishingly badly written; astonishingly wrong…” I knew I was going to regret it as soon as I heard myself say it’.
These first few sentences of the book explain why this book came to be written: because of the embarrassed silence of most evangelical churches in Britain when it comes to eschatology. Stephen Holmes tells us that his day-job is as an academic theologian and how he and Russell Rook hit upon the idea of a book on eschatology, written by scholars, ‘some of them the best in the world in their fields’, since it is a subject that ‘interests most theologians these days’.
