A

Abacha, Sani, 309, 401

abolitionists, 239–40, 344, 415, 440, 473

abortion, 146, 446, 458

academia, 139

Africa, 249, 250, 263, 329, 343, 348, 429–30, 442, 445, 507 (see also Kenya; Nigeria; etc.)

African-American churches, 102, 308 (see also under specific denominations)

AIDS, 207, 213, 214, 417

Alcasar, 29

Algeria, 209

A. M. E., 439

A. M. E. Zion, 285

Amnesty International, 76, 211, 212, 309

Anabaptists, 62, 167, 298, 344

angels and popular thought, 283, 460

Anglican church, 197 (see also Wesley)

annihilationism, 117, 382, 470

Antichrist, identity of, 24–25, 26, 342–43, 357–60, 479

anti-Semitism, 118, 146, 246, 299, 434

antisupernaturalism, 259, 302, 346 (see also secularism)

apocalyptic, 31–32

applications (summary of), 40–43

Arab world, 93, 346, 445

Arminianism, 112, 141, 147

Asia, 263, 343, 363, 398, 399 (see also China; Korea; etc.)

Assemblies of God, 166, 192, 214, 250, 260, 285

assimilation to culture, 109–10, 127–28, 129–31, 138–39, 146, 181–82, 277, 358, 360, 364–66, 379–80, 414, 508, 510

astrology, 23, 38, 99, 312, 332, 460, 496

Augustine, 15, 25, 110, 471, 476

Australia, 444

authorship, 54–55

Axum (East African empire), 192

Azusa Street revival, 251

B

Bakker, Jim, 15, 165, 441

Bangladesh, 444

Baptists, 62, 102, 130, 147, 214, 301, 365, 399

Bibliander, Theodorus, 343

“Black Death,” 213

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 146, 227, 345, 361, 522

Bontrager, B., 139

Booth, W. and/or C., 63, 239

Brazil, 211–12

Bright, Bill, 473

Brother Andrew, 166, 240

Buddhism, 140, 508

Burma (Myanmar), 446

Bushnell, Katherine, 213

Byzantine Empire, 77

C

Calvin, John, 15, 21, 25, 62, 326, 471

Calvinism, 112, 141, 147

Cambodia, 209, 211

Campus Crusade, 103, 214

Camus, Albert, 215

Canada, 444

canon, 57, 327, 519–20

Caribbean, 138, 440

Catholics, Catholicism, 90, 101, 277, 325–26, 358, 361, 413, 434, 440, 441

Caycee, Edgar, 23

celebrity cults, 128, 193, 247

Chad, 120

charismatics, 111, 251, 328 (see also Pentecostals; spiritual gifts; tongues)

chemical and germ warfare, 213, 331

children, homeless, 211–13

Children’s Crusade (medieval), 63

China, 26, 59, 166, 209–11, 226, 249, 276, 333, 346, 364, 398, 399, 417, 428, 445

Christian Community Development Association, 439

Christian Identity movement, 118, 457–58

Christian Science, 24, 111

Chrysostom, John, 22, 364–65

Church and state, 103, 344, 345

Church Fathers, 15

Church of Christ, 226

Church Universal and Triumphant, 277

Civil War, American, 63

Cohen, Mickey, 147–48

colonialism, 440, 442, 445

Columbus, Christopher, 61

compromise (see assimilation to culture)

computers, 25, 357, 416

Congo, 239

Constantine, 344, 364

contextualization, 29, 40, 137, 163, 191–92, 196, 330, 415, 504

corporate effects of sin, 435, 437–38

Crusades, 63, 456–57

Cuba, 332

cultural adaptation, 127 (see also assimilation)

current events, 21, 26, 274, 285, 329, 415

D

Darby, John Nelson, 153, 472

“dead churches,” 146–47

deferred gratification, 155

Deism, 62, 208, 238

deity of Christ, 42, 69, 72, 97, 101, 137, 246, 325, 515

depravity, human, 346–47, 361

disabled persons, 194

disease, 207, 213

dispensationalism, 24, 28, 40, 74–75, 153, 463, 472, 474–75, 478

divisions among Christians (see unity)

divorce, 112, 417, 437, 438, 455

DivorceCare, 77

Dixon, Jeanne, 23

Dominicans, 297

Domitian, 35–38, 336, 337, 360

Down’s syndrome, 194

drug dealers, drugs, 121, 129, 138, 303, 417, 441

E

Eastern Europe, 76

Eastern Orthodoxy, 77, 326, 348, 414, 457

economic injustice, 138, 146, 212, 213, 216, 345, 438–39, 440–46

Edwards, Jonathan, 25, 62, 297, 398, 473

Egypt, 429

Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 472

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 277

emperor worship, 37–39, 106, 114, 123, 132–33, 142, 317, 351–53, 358, 360

entertainment, 110, 128, 131, 417–18

environmentalism, 308–9

environmental disasters, 236, 260, 263, 308–9

Ethiopia, 250 (see also Axum)

ethnicity of Jesus, 100–101

ethnocentrism, 195

European Common Market, 343, 415

Evangelicals for Social Action, 345, 441

evangelism, 59, 77, 91, 110, 121, 128, 129, 147, 217, 219, 225–26, 246, 293, 299, 300–3, 307, 327, 329, 332, 363–64, 366, 380, 402, 460–61, 472

F

false teachers, 111, 130, 215, 264, 510

famine, 211, 366

Fifth Monarchists, 62

Finney, Charles, 25, 197, 215, 473

Food for the Hungry, 216

forgiveness, 249

Franklin, Benjamin, 208

free will, 261, 341–42

G

gambling, 365

Gnosticism, 55, 517

Graham, Billy, 65, 195, 473

Green, Keith, 239

greenhouse effect, 236 (see also environmental disasters)

Guatemala, 138, 211, 443

H

Helwys, Thomas, 62

hemophilia, 214

Hinduism, 140, 155, 227, 246, 300

Hippolytus, 23, 290

Hitler, 89, 146, 210, 342, 345, 346, 348, 358, 360, 361, 419, 458, 480 (see also Nazis)

Hoffman, Melchior, 62

holiness, 436, 521 (see also assimilation to culture)

homelessness, 211–13, 440–41

homosexual behavior, 112, 139, 441, 515, 521

Hussein, Saddam, 64

Hut, Hans, 237, 298

I

identification with biblical characters, 57, 190–91, 193

immigration policies, 442

imminence, 60–65, 518–19

India, 73, 103, 211, 226, 249, 300, 362, 428, 442, 443, 444

International Churches of Christ, 226

International Institute for Christian Studies, 16

International Justice Mission, 212

interpretive method, 21–31, 108–9, 274, 284–85, 325–27, 480 (more generally, see all Bridging Contexts sections)

intimacy with God, 164, 181

Iran, 76, 227, 285, 363, 399, 416

Iraq, 399 (see also Hussein, Saddam)

Islam, 77, 103, 192, 240, 246, 262, 313, 401–2, 416, 434, 457, 508

Islam, militant, 76, 120, 209, 227, 277, 345

Israel, 24, 26, 63, 359, 477–79

Itapson, E., 16, 226

J

Japan, 26, 210, 213, 346, 364, 398, 442, 444

Jefferson, Thomas, 62, 208

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 24, 86, 101, 162, 225, 237, 262, 284, 298, 473, 480, 502, 518

Jerome, 23, 290, 335

Jesus Film, 103

Jewish-Christian relations, 38–39, 85, 88–90, 92–93, 102, 114–15, 118–19, 143, 150, 241, 246, 248, 298–99, 457, 477–78 (see also anti-Semitism)

Johnson, Magic, 214

Jordan, 103

judgment, on the world, 193, 260, 262–64, 298, 303, 380–82, 398, 400–401, 416, 459, 461; on God’s people, 77, 110, 164–66, 215, 263, 418, 437

justice in the courts, 139, 249, 446

K

Kenya, 120–21, 277

Kenyon, E. W., 111

King James I, 62

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 166

Korea, 65, 210, 248, 346, 364

Koresh, David, 23

Kornfeld, Boris, 346

Kuhatschek, J., 16

L

Lambert, F., 289

Larkin, Clarence, 472

Latin America, 250, 263, 440 (see also Brazil; Guatemala; etc.)

liberation theology, 155

Lincoln, Abraham, 263

Luther, Martin, 15, 21, 22, 25, 61, 207, 326, 349, 358, 471, 479, 481

M

McCain, D., 5

McGready, James, 502

McKnight, S., 16

McVeigh, Timothy, 209

majesty of God, 176–77 (see also worship)

malnutrition, 204, 443 (see also famine)

Mao, 211, 346

Martin of Tours, 25

martyrdom (see persecution)

Marxism, 165, 443

Mary, mother of Jesus, 65, 314, 325, 362

materialism, 128, 138, 164–65, 216, 380, 427, 441, 443, 445, 503, 510

mental illness, 212–13, 441

Messianic Judaism, 115, 150, 155, 299, 346, 478

Methodism (see Wesley)

Middle East, 93, 101, 192, 343, 401

millennial views, 25, 41, 62, 461, 463–66, 470–77

Milton, John, 169

ministry, God’s call, 55, 90–91, 285

missions, 140, 192, 195, 216, 219, 223, 246–47, 250, 262, 285, 300, 327, 333, 362, 442

modernity, 210

monotheism, 141

Moody, D. L., 25, 473

Mormons, 24, 225, 507

Mother Teresa, 247, 248

Mozambique, 443

Muck, T., 16

multiculturalism, 195, 246–47, 249–51, 347–48

Müntzer, Thomas, 62, 298

N

Nanking, 209–10, 346

Napoleon, 343, 415

Nation of Islam, 100

Native Americans, 438

Nazis, 24, 89, 120, 146, 248, 345, 361, 416, 473 (see also Hitler; white supremacists)

Neo-Nazis, 209

neopagans, 308, 458

Nepal, 59, 155, 165

Nero, 337–39, 342–43, 346, 355–56, 360, 409–10, 434

New Age movement, 64, 332, 348, 361, 434, 508

New Zealand, 442, 444

Nicolas of Lyra, 27

Niebuhr, H. R., 262

Niemoller, Martin, 345

Nigeria, 16, 120, 226, 309, 401, 442

North Africa, 77, 101, 192, 428

Northern Ireland, 277

Norway, 444

Nubia, 77

nuclear weapons, 208–9, 263, 331, 435

numbers, 30, 292–93, 358–59, 368, 504–5

O

Obasanjo, President Olusegun, 401

occult, 332, 351, 361, 510 (see also astrology)

Old Testament, relation to New Testament, 33, 477–79, 504, and passim

omnipotence of God, 73–74

Orwell, George, 361

P

pacificism, 343–44

Pakistan, 227

Palau, Luis, 473

Pentecostals, 250, 251 (see also Assemblies of God)

Perpetua, 330

persecution, 62, 76, 120–21, 191, 217, 219, 226–27, 240–41, 249, 277, 293, 297–98, 302, 327, 330–33, 344–46, 360, 362–64, 380, 446

perseverance, and salvation, 141, 227, 241 (see also Arminianism; Calvinism)

Peru, 363

Philippines, 103, 179, 210, 212, 239, 445

Pietists, 62

political correctness, 347, 365

politics and Christianity, 309, 437

Pol Pot, 211, 346

Pope and papal office, 313, 326, 343, 358, 479

Pope John Paul, 247

pornography, 103, 416

postmodernism, 110–11, 347–48

poverty, caring for poor, 204, 215–16, 440–45 (see also malnutrition)

prayer, 77, 227–28, 254–55, 261–62, 509

Presbyterian doctrine (see Calvin)

preterism, 28

Price, Joseph Charles, 285

Promise Keepers, 439

prosperity teachers, 111, 162

prostitution, 130, 212–13, 521

psychic healing, 361 (see also occult)

Puritans, 61

Q

Quakers, 62

R

racial reconciliation, 195, 239, 250–51, 439

racism, 102, 130, 166, 195, 228, 277, 346, 365, 399, 438, 439

Reagan, Ronald, 358

recapitulation, 34, 464

relativism, 110–11, 139–41, 347–48, 379, 401

Revolutionary War, 62, 344

Ribeira, 29

rivalry in ministry, 181

Robison, James, 460

Russia, 165, 211, 247, 285, 346, 363, 401, 418, 419, 479

Rwanda, 209, 211, 239, 277, 346

S

Sabbath, 86–87, 333

Salvation Army, 63, 216, 239

Saro-Wiwa, K., 309

Saudi Arabia, 402, 416

Sawyer, S., 214

science, 79, 182, 225

Scofield, C. I., 21, 472

secularism, 128, 166, 208, 215, 238, 260, 361, 458

self-sufficiency, 164

Serbia, 416

Seventh-Day Adventism, 63, 86–87, 332, 382

sexist stereotypes in Revelation, alleged, 414

sexual behavior, 129–31, 214, 381, 416, 417, 510, 515

Seymour, William, 251

Shaftesbury, Lord, 24, 297

Shell Oil, 309

singles, 90, 155, 333, 522

slave trade, 346, 363, 438, 440

soap operas, 59

social location, 191–92

Social Security numbers, 359

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 240, 346

South Africa, 76, 345

Southern Poverty Law Center (and Klanwatch), 102, 118, 130, 209, 277, 357, 457, 458

sovereignty of God, 79, 179, 224, 233–34, 238–40, 260, 261, 266–67, 269, 278, 283, 302, 332, 341, 348–49, 400, 418–19

Spiritual Counterfeits Project, 277, 308, 359, 361, 362, 417

spiritual gifts, hearing God’s voice, 57, 134–35, 164, 179, 289, 301–2, 307, 345, 357, 460, 519–20

spiritual warfare, 327–28, 330, 332, 346, 362, 389, 482 (see also prayer)

Stalin, 211, 248, 346, 360, 419

street missions, 440–41

structure, 33–35

Sudan, 76, 211, 227, 363, 416

suffering, 81, 90–91, 120, 129, 182, 191, 210, 214, 228, 400 (see also persecution)

Sundays, 83–84, 86–87

survivalists, 331

Swaggert, Jimmy, 15

Sweden, 443

symbolism, 22–23, 30–31, 101, 312–13, 358, 504–7

Syria, 77

T

Tanzania, 429

Taylor, Hudson, 226

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 359

television (see entertainment)

ten Boom, Corrie, 120

terrorism, 208–9, 263, 277, 342, 458

tongues, 460

tradition and interpretation, 325–27

tribulational views, 25, 34–35, 60, 75, 153–54, 166, 177–79, 237, 298, 318–19, 324–25, 327, 333, 359–60, 388–89, 455–56, 472, 475

Trinity, 70 (see also deity of Christ)

Turner, Henry McNeal, 439

Turner, Nat, 344

Turkey, 26, 66, 77, 110, 398, 457, 479

2000 (year), 63–65

Two-Thirds World believers, 76, 250, 308, 441

U

Uganda, 120, 214

Ukraine, 360

unemployment, 207, 441, 443

United States and judgment, 263–64, 416–18, 443, 446

unity of believers, 77, 112–13, 137, 181, 195

universalism and related ideas, 139–41, 387–88, 475, 489, 505–6, 510–11

urban ministry, 503 (see also Christian Community Development Association; poverty; racism; street missions; etc.)

Urbana missions conference, 262

V

Verbrugge, V., 16

Victorinus, 34, 338

W

war, 208–11

Wesley, Charles, 197, 250

Wesley, John, 15, 25, 62, 112, 165–66, 205, 215, 326, 471, 473

white supremacists, 102, 118, 130, 209, 277, 331, 357, 402, 457–58

White, Ryan, 214

Whitefield, George, 112

whole-book context, 58, 329

Wilberforce, William, 239, 440

Williams, Morris, 250

Wishart, George, 344

worldliness (see assimilation to culture)

World Vision, 165, 216

worship, 87–88, 91–92, 156, 176–77, 179–82, 196–98, 520

Wycliffe, John, 297, 398

Y

YWAM, 277

Z

Zimbabwe, 224

Zwingli, 62