Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
About the Author
Charles E. Hill is associate professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida.
Table of Contents
Chiliasm: regnum caelorum terrestre. Ireaeus: Chiliasm and the intermediate state ; Other ante-Nicene Christian Chiliasts ; The "pharisaic-apocalyptic" sources ; Appendix: the witness of Cerinthus and Marcion -- Non-Chiliasm: regnum Caelorum Caeleste. The apostolic fathers ; The apologists ; Christian pseudepigrapha ; Early martyrologies ; The montanists ; Hippolytus ; Clement of Alexandria ; Origen ; Dionysius of Alexandria ; Cyprian ; Appendix: Cyprian, the Carthaginian confessors, and rev. 20 -- Some observation in new testament eschatology. The intermediate state in the new testament outside the book of revelation ; The book of revelation and Chiliasm -- Summary and conclusions. Millennium and intermediate state ; Distribution of eschatological views ; Irenaeus and Chiliasm ; An non-chiliastic exegesis of rev. 20 ; Eschatology in the new testament.