Are These the Last Days?

"As a church historian I am automatically rather cautious about the assumption that these are literally the last days. There is no depressed era in Christian history which has not felt itself to be on the verge of Christ's return. And depressed eras have a way of turning into Christian resurgences that regain lost ground and move beyond it to embrace a larger area with purer expressions of the gospel."

Richard Lovelace writing in the late 70s when the U.S. economic situation looked bleak,

Dynamics, p. 423