Comments on: Book: Barnes. Prophecy and Gnosis http://butler-harris.org/archives/187 How can you have the last word if you haven't heard the first? Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:26:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tim H http://butler-harris.org/archives/187#comment-2752 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:27:03 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/187#comment-2752 Yes I thought about that too. Similarities: (1) the passing of the "date" didn't slow him down (at least at 1994). 2. The freelance nature of much of the speculation, i.e. it was outside of a confessional and presbyterial control. Yet the apparent coupling of his project to his rejection of the visible church is a difference between him and all but the most extreme and heretical of the Germans of that period, putting him in the company of Paul Nagel much more so than say Melancthon. Yes I thought about that too. Similarities: (1) the passing of the “date” didn’t slow him down (at least at 1994). 2. The freelance nature of much of the speculation, i.e. it was outside of a confessional and presbyterial control.

Yet the apparent coupling of his project to his rejection of the visible church is a difference between him and all but the most extreme and heretical of the Germans of that period, putting him in the company of Paul Nagel much more so than say Melancthon.

]]> by: TurretinFan http://butler-harris.org/archives/187#comment-2711 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:38:44 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/187#comment-2711 I wonder how we could apply the historical lessons of this book to the Harold Camping debacle in our own time. -Turretinfan I wonder how we could apply the historical lessons of this book to the Harold Camping debacle in our own time.

-Turretinfan

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