How Long O' Lord: Three Views on the end of days
March 14-15, 2008
The schedule of speakers is out for the Toledo Reformed Theological Conference and it looks pretty interesting with a focus on examining the three major schools of eschatological thought.
The TRTC rarely has the star power of other conferences. Especially in the last couple of years you are not going to see Sproul or MacArthur here. Steve Camp as always will be there, as will stalwart Don Kistler. The other speakers are not household names.
Dr. Thomas Ice, from Liberty, will be (no surprise since he is from Liberty University!) representing the pre-millennial camp. Dr. Kenneth Gentry will be the advocate for post-millennialism. Dr. Richard Gaffin of Westminster Theological Seminary will speak on behalf of amillennialism. All three are rock solid scholars with great credentials. They may not be as recognizable as the speakers at Together for the Gospel, and the talks likely will not be as rousing, but the teaching should be great. Eschatology is a weak area for me, so I am very much looking forward to the TRTC in March (cleverly scheduled to not coincide with T4G!) Too bad they didn't move the Philadelphia Conference in Grand Rapids so it didn't overlap T4G, a decision which might cost them a lot of attenders.
2 comments:
The conference sounds good. I've been thinking through an end-times series for the church. My format would be similar to this, offering 3 (or 4) weeks, one for each position, with the attempt to explain each position as accurately as I could. My overall goal would be for the congregation to see the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Sadly, many dispensationalists have made premill a dividing line. It's hard to imagine a more idiotic thing to divide over (now....not believing in the second coming at all, well, THAT's something to divide over).
You should come along, it is not a huge time commitment (down on Thursday night, all day Friday and Saturday, back late in the evening Saturday night)
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