Distinctions and Differences in Last Days Minitries.

Last days minitries fall into three major divisions, Preterism, historicism and futurism. Each of the divisions have sub-divisions.

True Preterism sees the last days as past, all fulfilled in the first century. There are subdivisions within preterism such as partial-preterism.

In Partial Preterism, the meaning is self-evident in that it takes only "part" of the endtime passages to be fulfilled and holds to future fulfillment on resurrection, judgment, and Parousia. For this reason it's inconsistencies are vigorously debated by full preterists and millennialists.

Historicism holds that eschatology is an ongoing unfolding drama which involving current events in the world. It seeks to undertand eschatology in the light of "what's happening now, externally."

The third category is futurism. In it are different forms of millennialism; premillialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism with subgroups in each categhory. Click here for more detailed descriptions of each subcategory of last days minitries. Many books, pamphlets and now debates exist on each of these subjects. Check back to this page periodically as we begin posting a few that may be of interest to you in helping to clarify these views.