Ebook: For fear of the Jews

Stan Rittenhouse movingly describes his acceptance of Christ and his recoanition of his complete dependence on grace; he is an evangelical. He is also a premillennialist and dispensationalist in his view of history, and from this perspective combats all one-world movements as being satanic imitations of the true millennium. Thus, there can be nomreal peace or world order until the Lord's return. Meanwhile, there must be competition among nations for which God has equipped and blessed the United States. Rittenhouse connects his faith Rittenhouse'a special aim, though, is to disabuse "fundamentalist" of their illusion that the nation of Israel is fulfilling scriptural prophecy in the way that they think. lnatead, ueing Ezekiel as well as Revelation, he interprets Zionism as a creature of the antichrist. "Anti-Semitism" (always in quotion marks) is to this author merely the natural defensive reaction of Christians to the Jewish conspiracy. Let it be remembered that Adolf Hitler illustrated the pathological implicationsof ideas that were the common intellectual property of the European right. BOOK REVIEWS: Gary W. Hull J Church State (1984) 26 (2): 359-360.

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