International Conference on Historic Premillennialism
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Historic Premillennialism: A Biblical Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology
This conference was graciously underwritten by a friend of the Seminary. It was April 23-25, 2009 on Denver Seminary's campus.
Recordings of the sessions are available in streaming and downloadble (mp3) format below. Just click the appropriate link to listen or download.
Sessions
Plenary Speech 1
Dr. Craig Blomberg
"Why We Don't Have to Wait for the Great Commission to Be Fulfilled Before Christ Returns: The Problems with Postmillennialism"
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Session 1
Dr. Sung Wook Chung
"Who are the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11: An Integration of Western and Asian Proposals"
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Session 2
Dr. Bruce Demarest
"What Did the Early Church Believe about the Tribulation?"
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Session 3
Dr. Rick Hess
"The Seventy Sevens of Daniel 9: A Timetable for the Future?"
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Session 4
Dr. Andrew Dearman
"Transformations of Jerusalem in the Bible"
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Plenary Speech 2
Dr. Craig Blomberg
"The Need for a Millennium Beyond This Present Age: The Anticlimax of Amillennialism"
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Plenary Speech 3
Gary Hoag for Dr. Craig Blomberg
"Inappropriately Privileging Israel: Why Historic Premillinnialism Trumps Dispensationalism"
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Resources
A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology
By Craig Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung (Baker, 2009)
The Presence of the Future
G.E. Ladd (Eerdmans, 1974)
Speaker Bios
Dr. Andrew Dearman
Dr. Andy Dearman joined the faculty of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1982 and served as academic dean from 1997-2003. Professor Dearman has traveled extensively in the Middle East and is an experienced archaeological researcher. He is the author of six books including Jeremiah & Lamentations (NIVAC; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002) and Hosea (NICOT; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, forthcoming.), as well as numerous papers and reviews. Dr. Dearman has also contributed to several scholarly texts, including more than 40 entries in the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, Revised Edition. He is currently involved in two Bible translation projects. Professor Dearman is past editor of Horizons in Biblical Theology and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature for the Society of Biblical Literature. Dr. Dearman has earned a number of honors and grants including a discretionary research grant from the Lilly Foundation in 1989. He was the visiting scholar to the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in 1989-1990 and to the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa (1995, 1998-2000). His teaching interests include biblical languages and Old Testament history, theology, and archeology.
Professor Dearman is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a member of the Presbytery of South Louisiana.
