The coming of the Lord: will it by premillennial?

xxi, 288 pages ; 20 cm "Works consulted": page xi-xvi I. Introduction -- The fact of Christ's coming -- The two views of Christ's coming: the postmillennial and the postmillennial and the premillennial -- Importance of the subject -- Two extreme views -- A pervasive and dislocating theory -- Its practical consequences -- II. History of the millennial hope -- In the pagan world -- In the Old Testament -- In the New Testament -- The subsequent history of the hope -- Literature and scholarship -- III. Some principles of scriptures interpretation -- The historical meaning -- Different styles of language -- Apocalyptic literature -- successive fulfillments of prophecy -- Scripture unsystematic yet unitary -- IV. The kingdom of God: Its nature -- Not of this world -- Its spirituality -- Relation to the church and other agencies -- An individual yet a social kingdom -- A democratic kingdom -- A present yet a future kingdom -- Eschatological aspects of the kingdom -- V. The kingdom of God: Its growth -- Scripture teaching -- A mixed growth -- A slow and long growth -- A gradual growth attended with catastrophic crises -- Place of the second coming of Christ in this catastrophic growth -- VI. The kingdom of God: Means of its establishment -- Not by worldly means -- The truth and grace of the Gospel -- The work of the church -- Providential use of secular agencies -- The work of the Holy Spirit -- Conclusion as to the kingdom of God -- VII. The coming of the Lord at critical points in history -- The coming of Christ at the destruction of Jerusalem -- The coming of Christ at His resurrection -- The coming of Christ on the day of Pentecost -- The coming of Christ in his Holy Spirit -- The coming of Christ to individuals -- The final coming of Christ -- Difficulty of distinguishing between nearer comings and the final coming -- The final coming a remote event -- The final coming to be attended with the "Last Things" -- The nature of these last things VIII. Watching for the co