The Rapture Trap : A Catholic Response To Paperback - 2001
by Paul Thigpen
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- Title The Rapture Trap : A Catholic Response To
- Author Paul Thigpen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 100
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ascension Press, Necedah, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
- Date October 2001
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4974335-6
- ISBN 9780965922821 / 0965922820
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.64 x 0.75 in (22.00 x 14.33 x 1.91 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Catholic
- Library of Congress subjects Rapture (Christian eschatology) - Catholic, End of the world - Catholic Church
- Dewey Decimal Code 236.9
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From the jacket flap
In The Rapture Trap, Dr. Paul Thigpen explains the biblical foundations of Catholic teaching on the final judgment. Drawing from Scripture and Tradition, The Rapture Trap reveals the shortcomings of the "rapture" doctrine and the larger tangle of unfounded religious teachings to which it's tied. In this Catholic response to "end times" fever, discover]‚]
- The origins of the novel rapture theory and its theological flaws.
- Why the rapture idea is so seductive and spiritually dangerous to Christians.
- The subtle (and not-so-subtle) anti-Catholic agenda from promoters of the rapture doctrine.
- What the Catholic Church teaches (and doesn't teach) about the end of the world.
- 11 insights the Church offers us about the second coming of Christ.
- 13 guidelines for discerning the validity of claims to private revelation.
- Five ways Catholic theologians interpret the Book of Revelation.
- What the Church teaches about the Antichrist.
