Last July, Unaspress (www.unaspress.unasp.br), the academic publisher of Brazil Adventist University College – Campus Engenheiro Coelho, issued in Portuguese the book The Future: An Adventist View of the Final Events. Dedicated to Hans K. LaRondelle, the work comprises biographical information about him; the edited version of twenty-four lectures on eschatology presented at the V South American Biblical-Theological Symposium in Brazil, as well as the Consensus Statement approved by the 760 SDA theologians and pastors who attended that event. O Futuro deals with eschatology from an Adventist perspective. Its content is divided into the following five sections: (1) Old Testament, (2) New Testament, (3) Systematic Theology, (4) Church and Adventist History, and (5) Applied Theology.

The chapters vary in length and in style, but all contributors of the book uphold the predictive nature of biblical prophecies and the historicist interpretation of the apocalyptic literature of Scripture. Amin Rodor in the preface of the book points out that eschatology “must be centered in Christ, in the solid basis of God’s Word, and, secondarily, corroborated by the writings of Ellen G. White. If we lose the Christological focus of our hope and its biblical basis, we will end up fascinated with dates, prophetic charts, signs created by our own imagination and, consequently, will become victims of anxiety, fear, and tragic errors. Furthermore, a solid hermeneutical basis is the decisive test of any eschatological formulation.”

Written by authors from different cultural backgrounds and different perspectives, O Futuro adds helpful insights to the eschatological legacy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.