Second Thoughts About the Second Coming
Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope

This book did what it set out to do—give a concise overview of how Christians from the apostolic age to the present have viewed the afterlife and the promised second coming of Christ. In some ways it was too concise. Martin Luther’s break from the Catholic Church is told totally from the Protestants......more

Cornwall and Allen accomplished what they set out to do: give us a tour of historical and modern Christian interpretations of the Last Things. Not extensive or overly academic, though I have my doubts as to whether a “normal” lay person would be able to follow along and keep up (hence 4 instead of 5......more

An excellent study of Last Things over the course of the Bible's writing. The authors well explain how Jewish and Christian understandings of the Endtimes have changed over passsing generations. The book helpfully summarizes various opinions about this subject as well as an individual's destiny afte......more

I co-authored this book with Ron Allen. It's an invitation to consider the idea of eschatology (last things) from a broader perspective than often is available. We wrote the book because we had witnessed both an interest in the subject of end times and the afterlife, along with a hesitancy among Mai......more