Regnum Caelorum : Patterns of Millennial

Regnum Caelorum is a groundbreaking book that explores the largely overlooked connection in early Christian thought between understandings of the millennium and beliefs about the intermediate state of the soul after death.

Charles Hill traces various views of the soul's fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and early Christian writings through the mid-third century A.D. His findings lead to a provocative new assessment of the development of Christian eschatology that corrects many misconceptions of earlier scholarly research.

This second edition updates and substantially expands Hill's highly respected work originally published by Oxford.

Abbreviations

ix

Acknowledgments

xix

Preface to the Second Edition

xx

Introduction

1

(10)

I. CHILIASM: REGNUM CAELORUM TERRESTRE

Irenaeus: Chiliasm and the Intermediate State

11

(10)

Two Groups of Objectors to Chiliasm

11

(5)

The Stumbling Block to Chiliasm

16

(5)

Other Ante-Nicene Christian Chiliasts

21

(24)

Papias

22

(1)

Justin

23

(4)

Tertullian

27

(5)

Commodianus

32

(3)

Novatian

35

(1)

Victorinus

35

(4)

Methodius

39

(2)

Lactantius

41

(2)

Summary

43

(2)

The ``Pharisaic-Apocalyptic'' Sources

45

(24)

The Conjunction in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra

46

(5)

Comparisons with Other Jewish Views

51

(11)

Dependence on the Part of the Christian Chiliasts

62

(7)

Appendix: The Witness of Cerinthus and Marcion

69

(8)

II. NON-CHILIASM: REGNUM CAELORUM CAELESTE

Introduction

75

(2)

The Apostolic Fathers

77

(25)

Clement of Rome

78

(6)

Ignatius of Antioch

84

(7)

Polycarp of Smyrna

91

(1)

Hermas

92

(7)

2 Clement

99

(3)

The Apologists

102

(7)

Epistle to Diognetus

102

(1)

Melito of Sardis

103

(4)

Athenagoras

107

(2)

Christian Pseudepigrapha

109

(19)

Ascension of Isaiah

109

(7)

Apocalypse of Peter

116

(4)

5 Ezra

120

(3)

Epistula Apostolorum

123

(2)

Syrian Pseudepigrapha: Odes of Solomon; Acts of Thomas; the Abgar Legend

125

(3)

Early Martyrologies

128

(15)

Confession of Jude's Grandsons

128

(5)

Martyrdom of Polycarp

133

(2)

Martyrdom of Justin

135

(2)

Epistle of Vienne and Lyons

137

(3)

Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs

140

(3)

The Montanists

143

(17)

General Eschatology

144

(9)

Intermediate State

153

(5)

Conclusion

158

(2)

Hippolytus

160

(10)

The Problem of the Hippolytan Corpus

160

(1)

General Eschatology

161

(4)

Individual Eschatology

165

(5)

Clement of Alexandria

170

(6)

Eschatology and History

172

(1)

Individual Eschatology

173

(3)

Origen

176

(14)

Answering Chiliasm

176

(5)

Exegesis of Rev. 20

181

(7)

Thnetopsychiasm

188

(1)

Conclusion

189

(1)

Dionysius of Alexandria

190

(2)

Cyprian

192

(10)

Millennialism

192

(4)

Intermediate State

196

(2)

Exegesis of Rev. 20:1-6

198

(2)

Conclusions

200

(2)

Appendix: Cyprian, the Carthaginian Confessors, and Rev. 20

202

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Regnum Caelorum : Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity

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