This robust and well timed publication, written through a former Fundamentalist, is a thorough critique of the preferred Fundamentalist inspiration of the "Rapture"—the trust that Christians might be faraway from earth sooner than a time of Tribulation and the second one Coming. It examines the theological, old, and Biblical foundation for "premillennial dispensationalism", the assumption procedure dependent round the Rapture, and popularized within the best-selling Left in the back of books and taught by way of "Bible prophecy" writers Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, and plenty of others.

Written for either the lay individual and the intense pupil, this publication combines an interesting, well known strategy with special footnotes and exhaustive study. starting with the massive photo, it focuses first on key ideas equivalent to eschatology, the Parousia, and the connection among the dominion and the Church. It then examines the ebook of Revelation, supplying insights into the nature and objective of that tough, ultimate ebook of the Bible. one other bankruptcy seems on the idea of the "millennium" and the way it's been understood via a number of Christians over the centuries. Olson then indicates how Left Behind writer LaHaye’s many works on "Bible prophecy" are full of assaults on Catholicism, and sometimes depend upon sensationalism, shaky scholarship, and subjective interpretations of Scripture

Olson, a former dispensationalist who now edits Envoy journal, additionally offers a heritage of apocalyptic trust and theology, starting with the Early Church Fathers and together with the Montanists, St. Augustine, Joachim of Fiore, the Protestant Reformers, and the yank Puritans. He indicates how John Nelson Darby, an ex-Anglican priest, built the premillennial dispensationalist approach, which hinges at the Rapture, within the 1830s and the way Darby relied upon defective assumptions approximately Jesus Christ, the Church, and the Bible.

The moment a part of the e-book, "A Catholic Critique of Dispensationalism," specializes in 3 vital subject matters: the connection among Israel, the Church, and the dominion; the translation of Scripture; and the character of the Rapture occasion. full of a wealth of knowledge drawn from either Protestant and Catholic resources, this part offers an entire rebuttal to the premillennial dispensationalist approach and the "left at the back of" theology. The e-book concludes with a mirrored image at the Catholic figuring out of the top instances, salvation historical past, and the ultimate judgement. Glossaries of key individuals and phrases also are included.

A powerful, yet reasonable, critique of a deadly and well known trust, Will Catholics Be "Left Behind"? offers Catholics and Protestants, lay humans and clergy, and scholars and students with vital solutions and data in regards to the roots and which means of the "Rapture".