As a follow-up to my article, The Infidelity of Preterism, I thought it well to further explore the kind of rationalism and unbelief on which Preterist theology bases its claims. While systematic Preterism has little historical support, there are a number of writings documented throughout church history that contain key concepts espoused by Preterism….
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The Infidelity of Preterism
During the past few decades, there has been a significant increase of Preterism among liberal academic circles. While the majority within the Christian church have repudiated the notion that “all things were fulfilled in A.D. 70,” the intellectuals have insisted that they know not the truth; and therefore, a widescale push has been launched…
Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Ph.D–On Chiliasm In The Early Church
(from Notes on Eusebius’s Church History, 1890) Chiliasm, or millennarianism,–that is, the belief in a visible reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years before the general judgment,–was very widespread in the early church. Jewish chiliasm was very common at about the beginning of the Christian era, and is represented in the voluminous apocalyptic…