Kenneth Gentry is particularly known for his support for and publication on the topics of orthodox preterism and postmillennialism in Christian eschatology, as well as for theonomy and Young Earth creationism.
12 Facts About Kenneth Gentry
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Kenneth Gentry holds that each of these theological distinctives are logical and theological extensions of his foundational theology.
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Kenneth Gentry is married and has three children and six grandchildren.
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Kenneth Gentry transferred to Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Kenneth Gentry retired from full-time pastoral ministry in 2016 after serving more than thirty-five years in three conservative and Reformed denominations: The Presbyterian Church in America, The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and The Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Assembly.
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Kenneth Gentry is the Director of GoodBirth Ministries, a non-profit religious educational ministry, "committed to sponsoring, subsidizing, and advancing serious Christian scholarship and education".
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Kenneth Gentry is the leading contemporary theological expositor of the early-date of Revelation by the Apostle John.
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Kenneth Gentry's work is considered by his followers to be important for soteriological reasons.
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Kenneth Gentry is perhaps best known for his book Before Jerusalem Fell, which argues that the Book of Revelation was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
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Kenneth Gentry holds that many of the dramatic events in Revelation correspond to the persecution of Christians under the Roman imperium as well as to the Jewish War against Rome which resulted in the destruction of Jewish temple.
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Kenneth Gentry has completed a two-volume academic commentary on Revelation titled: The Divorce of Israel: A Redemptive-Historical Interpretation.
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Kenneth Gentry argues that the seven-sealed scroll is God's divorce decree against his unfaithful Old Testament wife so that he might take a new bride, the Church.