Chiliasm was accepted by the Gnostics and Montanists and, as Dean Dunlap has
pointed out, some of our revered Fathers. It was eventually driven out of
the church because it began to stress all the lustly pleasures that would be
enjoyed by the saints in the "Millenium". Origen began the move to discredit
this position (and we know where he ended up--borrowing Mike's phrase) but
was finally and fully denounced by Augustine (are you happy, Mike?), at
which time the Church put this teaching aside.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Clavier+" <anglican@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] Re: ++Ussher and the Book of Revelation


> Dan+,
>
> Fascinating that these represent some of the earliest Fathers.  I'm no
> premillenialist, but it seems to me that these blokes had a stronger sence
> of the renewal of this world than the Fathers who came after Neoplatonism
> had made inroads into Christianity.
>
> Mark+
>
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