Papers from the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The Kingdom of God in Biblical theology / Bruce Waltke -- The Kingdom of God in New Testament theology / Darrell L. Bock -- The meaning and identification of God's eschatological trumpets / James A. Borland -- The eschatological prospect in the context of Mark / Hans F. Bayer -- First Peter and the "sufferings of the Messiah" / Mark Dubis -- The eschatology of 1 John / Donald W. Mills -- The Epistle to Rheginos : Christian-Gnostic teaching on the resurrection / J. Robert Douglass -- Martin Luther's theology of last things / Fred P. Hall -- The coming of the kingdom and sixteenth-century English Bibles / Cameron A. MacKenzie -- From ecclesiology to eschatology : the changing Puritan understanding of the reign of Christ / Harry L. Poe -- Hope : the heart of eschatology / J. Lanier Burns -- The place of imminence in recent eschatological systems / Robert L. Thomas -- Incarnational explanation for Jesus' subjection in the eschaton / Gary W. Derickson -- The pretribulation rapture : a doubtful doctrine / T. Van McClain -- Toward a more inclusive eschatology / Clark H. Pinnock -- God as omnicompetent responder? : questions about the grounds of eschatological confidence in open theism / Steven C. Roy -- The openness of God and the assurance of things to come / John Sanders -- Theodicy, eschatology, and the open view of God / Steven R. Tracy -- Messianic intermezzo : eschatology, spirit, and worship in the church / David Nelson -- The significance of eschatology for Christian ethics / Guenther Haas -- Till every foe is vanquished : emerging sociopolitical implications of progressive dispensational eschatology / Russell D. Moore -- Prophecy, eschatology, and apologetics / John Warwick Montgomery.