OUch!!!! That hurt!???
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ward" <mward@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] Re: ++Ussher and the Book of Revelation


> Erich+
>
> But of course I'm happy.  I was just hoping that someone else would come
> to ol' Auggy's defense instead of it always having to be me!!  Glad it
> was you this time!  Should I send you an application and copy of the
> General Document of the Society?  Ha!
>
> MLW+
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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