Author: Showers, Renald
Genre: Theology - Dispensationalism
Tags: Dispensationalism
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Rick Shrader‘s Review:
Renald Showers wrote this book in 1995, a book I read long ago but am just now adding it to my review list. Anything by Renald Showers is worth reading. In this book he includes a chapter on Pre-Wrath Rapture, which had only been made popular a few years before; a great section on the 7-sealed book in Revelation and what it meant historically; and a section on the Oriental, biblical wedding as it applies to Christ and the Church. It is in this book that Showers gives his well-known definition of imminency. I will include it here. “An imminent event is one that is always hanging overhead, is constantly ready to befall or overtake a person. Other things may happen before an imminent event, but nothing else must take place before it happens. If something else must take place before an event can happen, that event is not imminent. The necessity of something else taking place first destroys the concept of imminency” (p. 127).