Craig C. Hill is professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
Eugene Peterson
author of The Message
"Sane, convincing, biblical writing. Pastors, teachers, and parents
-- all of us who are responsible for providing Christian guidance
through the verbal clutter and emotional hysteria associated with
the 'end times' -- will welcome Craig Hill's accessible and timely
teaching." Graham Stanton
University of Cambridge
"This is a splendid, well-written book on a topic of continuing
importance for the health of the church. A gifted teacher and a
wise guide, Craig Hill explains the Bible's teaching on 'God's
time' clearly and judiciously. He doesn't assume any prior
knowledge, nor does he duck the awkward questions his readers are
likely to have. His book is packed with helpful insights for a wide
range of readers. Many will wish the could have read this book
years ago." A. Katherine Grieb
Virginia Theological Seminary
"Thanks to Craig Hill for this powerful and timely word calling the
church to take seriously its eschatological beginnings. A must-read
for understanding the Christian faith." Luke Timothy Johnson
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
"Hill writes for Christians who don't know what (or how)to think
about the End Time and what Scripture sa s about it. He tackles the
hard questions and comes up with answers that are both specific and
remarkably sane. While completely informed by the best scholarship,
his prose is lively, unaffected, and clear. Here is the sort of
writing too seldom found -- work by an expert who actually says
something helpful to ordinary people." Pheme Perkins
Boston College
"Every Sunday Christians confess belief in the 'last things' -- the
second coming of Jesus, resurrection of the dead, and final
judgment. Hill here provides students, pastors, and interested
laity with a much-needed guide to New Testament eschatology and its
Jewish roots. He includes a helpful guide to reading apocalypses
like Daniel and Revelation and explains the origins of contemporary
beliefs about 'the rapture.' This book should be required seminary
reading. Christians living in the twenty-first century need not
abandon the core elements of their ancestors' faith." Walter
Brueggemann
Columbia Theological Seminary
"Craig Hill's book ranges widely over the biblical text to consider
the way the Bible hopes. The book is attentive to the many
different nuances given the permeating act of hope in
Scripture.Hill shows how characteristic and crucial is hope for
biblical faith and yet how liable it is to distortion and
misreading. His book is an invitation to rethink the odd claim of
faith in a cultural context where hope is either impossible or
transposed into fanciful escape." Charlotte Allen
author of The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus
"This is a wonderful study of the book of Revelation and of Jesus'
own words in the Gospels about the End Times. Hill argues
persuasively that these texts require neither an ultraliteral 'left
behind' interpretation nor the skepticism of the Jesus Seminar,
which has dismissed the texts as inauthentic. Hill demonstrates
that apocalyptic literature was a popular Jewish religious genre
during Jesus' time, a poetic wat of talking about God's dramatic
intervention in the world on behalf of his people. To the earliest
Christians, who were all Jewish, the culmination of that
intervention was, of course, Jesus himself." Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury
"When Christians talk about the end of the world, they often think
that they are repeating what the Bible says when in fact the text
is far more subtle and interesting. Craig Hill is both a first-rate
scholar and a lucid communicator, and he manages in this admirable
book to clarify decisively what Scripture does and doesn't say
about the last days. He cuts through much nonsense and helps us see
the really important themes in the texts he discusses. " Richard B.
Wilke
founder of the DISCIPLE Bible study series
"Such clarity, such vigor, such color! I love the metaphors,
down-home examples, and faith insights -- mixed right in with
erudite scholarship. In God's Time is a must-read book for all
serious students of Scripture. " Tony Campolo
Eastern University
"Craig Hill has done the Christian community a great service by
spelling out in a sensible, scholarly, and readable manner what the
Bible says about the end times. At a time when popular books on the
second coming are leading to confusion and a right-wing political
mind-set, here is a book that is balanced and inspiring and
helpful." Theological Book Review
"This is a good book. It does what it sets out to do. Using the
tools of historical criticism the author shows just how conditioned
the biblical 'prophecy' writers were in the way that they wrote
about the end of the age and how, in Hill's view, the truth found
in books like Revelation is not dependent upon historical accuracy.
. . A useful book, then, that would be a useful addition to any
theological library." United Methodist Reporter
"In God's Time provides pastors and laity a foundation for
understanding and living toward the future that will come in God's
time. It is an excellent study resource for laity and clergy and
represents a needed correction to the misrepresentation and abuse
of the Bible in much popular portrayal of the End Times." Christian
Marketplace (U.K.)
"Intelligent but not overly academic, readable but eminently
sensible, this book should be on the shelves as a good first port
of call for people wanting a balanced approach to the future." The
Bible Today
"Written in a lively style, this is a thoughtful and balanced
presentation of a difficult topic, one that would make interesting
reading for a Bible study group or provide a helpful perspective
for pastors and teachers who often have to fend off questions by
anxious Christians wondering about the imminent end of the world."
Presbyterian Record
"Combines solid scholarship with eminent readability."
Jurgen Moltmann
University of T?bingen
"This book is written in accordance with the Scripture and
simultaneously in accordance with our present time -- a wonderful
gift and a rare fortune in theology. It is a masterpiece on the
biblical foundations of the Christian hope in the coming of God,
without doomsday speculations and without the banalities of modern
f eeling-good-in-the-present-and-after-us-the-flood religion." John
J. Collins
Yale Divinity School
"A remarkable achievement -- a discussion of biblical eschatology
that is fully informed by contemporary scholarship and written in
such a way as to be accessible to any layperson. There is a
tremendous need for this kind of writing, and very few scholars can
write at this level of clarity. " Mike McCurry
White House press secretary, 1995-98
"There is nothing easy about eschatology. Thankfully, Craig Hill
has produced a wonderful road map for laypeople and experts alike
to follow during the difficult journey through God's time. Hill
plays a fine Sherlock Holmes, discovering new insights and fresh
clues as to the meaning of the Bible's prophetic and apocalyptic
texts. Contemporary events make Hill's treatment all the more
compelling and his evaluation of popular biblical interpretations
all the more urgent." Fred Barnes
executive editor of The Weekly Standard
"I thought eschatology was just too scholarly a subject for anyone
but theologians to think about. Christians who dwelled on it --
well, I found them a bit strange. But Craig Hill has proven me
wrong. In God's Time not only makes eschatology understandable to
laity but also explains why it's important to every Christian in
today's world. And Hill writes beautifully." John Barton
University of Oxford
"Hill's study of eschatological thinking in the Bible will come as
a liberation to many troubled by forms of Christian belief that are
fixated on calculating the time of the end. His explanation of
biblical prophecy and its relevance for understanding Jesus is
clear and forceful, and his accessible style makes the book a
pleasure to read."
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