Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Landscape of Pentecostal and Charismatic Eschatology: An Introduction -- Peter Althouse -- THE CONTOURS OF THE ESCHATOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE -- PENTECOSTAL AND CHARISMATIC ESCHATOLOGIES -- PURPOSE AND OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- PART ONE Eschatology in Biblical Perspectives -- 1 Early Jewish Eschatology -- William Raccah -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MESSIAH AND THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM -- HELL: SHE'OL AND GEHINNON -- HEAVEN: GAN EDEN -- RESURRECTION -- IMMORTALITY -- CONCLUSION -- 2 Restoring the Kingdom to Israel -- Blaine Charette -- 3 Seven Dispensations or Two-Age View of History -- John A. Bertone -- STATUS QUAESTIONIS: PAUL THE DISPENSATIONALIST? -- THE FUTURE AGE IMPOSED UPON THE PRESENT -- THE FUTURE AGE ONTO THE PRESENT -- "RAPTURE" THEOLOGY EXPOSED -- A REDUCTIONISM OF THE SPIRIT? -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PENTECOSTALISM -- 4 Apocalyptic Sustainability -- Robby Waddell -- CARING FOR CREATION IN THE BEGINNING -- CARING FOR CREATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE END -- 2 PET 3:10-13 AND THE (RE)NEW(ED) EARTH -- IS "APOCALYPTIC SUSTAINABILITY" AN OXYMORON? -- 5 The Mystery of the Great Whore -- John Christopher Thomas -- THE CONTEXT OF THE PASSAGE WITHIN THE APOCALYPSE -- THE WOMAN ON THE BEAST: BABYLON THE WHORE (17:1-18) -- LXX) -- PART TWO Theological Engagements on Pentecostal Eschatology -- 6 Early Pentecostal Eschatology in the Light of The Apostolic Faith, 1906-1908 -- Larry McQueen -- THE DYNAMICS OF DISCERNMENT -- HOLISTIC SPIRITUALITY -- THE BRIDE OF CHRIST AND THE MARRIAGE SUPPER -- BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT AS THE SEAL OF GOD IN THE FOREHEAD -- SUFFERING AND REIGNING -- OLD TESTAMENT TYPOLOGY -- APOCALYPTIC SPIRITUALITY AND THE FORETASTE OF THE FUTURE -- POWER FOR THE PRESENT MISSION -- 7 Eschatology, Spirit Baptism, and Inclusiveness -- Murray W. Dempster.

ESCHATOLOGICAL MOTIVATION FOR WORLD EVANGELISM IN EARLY PENTECOSTAL MISSIOLOGY -- TOWARD A PENTECOSTAL WHOLISTIC CHURCH MISSION: THE CONNECTION OF THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE SPIRIT AND THE ESCHATOLOGICAL KINGDOM OF GOD -- TOWARD A PENTECOSTAL SOCIAL ETHIC: THE CONNECTION OF THE ESCHATOLOGICAL AND THE ETHICAL KINGDOM OF GOD -- CONCLUSION ON SPIRIT BAPTISM AND INCLUSIVENESS -- 8 Eschatology as Soteriology -- Matthew K. Thompson -- SOTERIOLOGY IS ESCHATOLOGY -- ESCHATOLOGY IS SOTERIOLOGY: THE FULL GOSPEL OF THE ESCHATON -- 9 Pentecostal Eschatology in Context -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE COMING KING -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF HEALING -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF SALVATION -- 10 Patience as a Theological Virtue -- Daniel Castelo -- THE TRADITION OF PATIENCE -- PENTECOSTALISM AND THE VIRTUE OF PATIENCE -- PART THREE Theological Engagements and Charismatic Issues -- 11 Hope for Eternal Life -- Jeffrey Gros, FSC -- PENTECOSTAL AND CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS IN DIALOGUE -- PENTECOSTAL AND CATHOLIC POPULAR PIETY -- EVANGELICAL ESCHATOLOGICAL PIETY AND ITS CATHOLIC ANTECEDENTS -- MILLENNIAL CONTEXTS -- MEDIEVAL DISPENSATIONALISM -- RECURRENT ANTICHRIST -- CATHOLIC ESCHATOLOGICAL PIETY IN PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE -- 12 "Discerning the Times" -- David Moore -- LOOKING BACK -- THE FIVE TEACHERS -- ESCHATOLOGICAL RESTORATIONISM -- THE KINGDOM OF GOD -- REFLECTIONS -- 13 Prosperity Already and Not Yet -- Michael J. McClymond -- THE LATTER RAIN MOVEMENT -- PROSPERITY TEACHING IN LIGHT OF THE LATTER RAIN -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART FOUR Contextual Pentecostal Eschatologies -- 14 The New Jerusalem versus Social Responsibility -- Nestor Medina -- PROTESTANT PENTECOSTALISM IN GUATEMALA -- THE MONOPOLY OF CATHOLICISM AND THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM.

THE CHANGING TIDES: THE QUIET "EXPLOSION" OF PENTECOSTALISM -- TOWARD A PENTECOSTAL CHRISTENDOM?: PENTECOSTALS AND NEO-PENTECOSTALS IN NATIONAL POLITICS -- MAKING THE CONNECTIONS: CHURCH, SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND ESCHATOLOGY -- 15 "Se fue con el Señor" -- Sammy Alfaro -- IN SEARCH OF SOURCES FOR A HISPANIC PENTECOSTAL ESCHATOLOGY -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HISPANIC PENTECOSTAL FUNERAL SERVICE -- HISPANIC PENTECOSTAL ESCHATOLOGY: OTHERWORLDLY OR THIS-WORLDLY? -- 16 Constructing an African Pentecostal Eschatology -- J. Ayodeji Adewuya -- AN AFRICAN ESCHATOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW -- AN AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL SPIRITUALITY -- KEY ISSUES IN PENTECOSTAL ESCHATOLOGY -- PROBLEMS ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT -- AN AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL ESCHATOLOGY: WHICH WAY? -- 17 Jesus is Victor -- Frank D. Macchia -- THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN EARLY SOUTHERN GERMAN PIETISM -- THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE ELDER BLUMHARDT -- THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE YOUNGER BLUMHARDT -- CONCLUDING REFLECTION -- Bibliography.