Folks have told us “nobody owns the terms of Premillennialism, Amillennialism and Postmillennialism. So why did you obtain a trademark on Transmillennial?
The simple answer is, because we invented the word and needed time to fully design its meaning. The other three Christian millennialisms cannot be trademarked, given the terms have been in the public domain for much of the 20th century. Why did we trademark Transmillennialism? We saw that “preterism” was an aggressive 1990s sectarian approach to biblical eschatology, and it had lost its ability to relate to the church and society in a constructive, healthy manner. By July 1999, we felt we needed to take steps to go beyond “preterist” divisiveness and the side-stream movement it had become. After naming this field Transmillennialism we began to release a new line of products and services to carry the Transmillennial identity. Transmillennialism is not a doctrine, but a network of people dedicated to transformed, integral living in the 21st century by transcending and reframing the discussion of biblical eschatology from the way it was framed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Our prayer is
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