Why Not Full-Preterism? by Steve Gregg, Xulon Press, Maitland, FL, pag. 370 (2022)
My Goodreads review:
Full-Preterism is a theological innovation from the 1970s according to which all Bible prophecies have already been fulfilled in the past, that is in A.D. 70. The system is mainly based on the so-called time-texts (for instance Matt. 24:34, 1 Cor. 10:11, Rev. 1:1) around which a paradigm is established that forces all prophetic pronouncements into a first-century fulfilment. Although Hyper-Preterism (the preferred term for Full-Preterism by its critics) is a niche movement, it has gained some ground in more recent times and is confusing not a few.
The author, a popular radio talk show host who has been in Bible-teaching ministry for over fifty years, does a marvellous job in examining the claims and espousing the fallacies of this system. Interestingly, Gregg shows that certain passages like the Olivet Discourse, that popularly are often interpreted futuristically, on close examination may indeed better fit a first-century fulfilment. With this approach the author holds a view called Partial-Preterism that does justice to what the Bible actually says in a certain passage, without superimposing the peculiar teachings of one passage on other (unrelated) parts of the scriptures. Although similar in name, Partial-Preterism differs from Full-Preterism in kind rather than degree; the latter being definitively outside Christian orthodoxy, as Gregg successfully proves in this volume.
The book is highly recommended to anyone interested in the subject.
