Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity

by Charles E. Hill

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2001

Overview

This study in early Christianity by Charles E. Hill examines the New Testament—as well as Jewish texts and early Christian writings—to offer a new view of the development of Christian eschatology.

Contents

Top Highlights

“As a matter of fact, we shall later see how it is often those Christians who are under the most extreme form of persecution, on the verge of martyrdom for their faith, who give the clearest testimonies to the amillennial form of Christian eschatology.” (Page 8)

“He understands ‘the souls of those who had been beheaded’ to be Christian martyrs (who also stand for the rest of the Christian dead) now in heaven, who reign, ‘though not as yet in conjunction with their bodies’” (Page 267)

“We have observed the existence, long before Tyconius, Jerome, and Augustine, of a non-chiliastic interpretation of” (Page 260)

“It is conserved in Hegesippus’ story of Jude’s grandsons standing before the emperor Domitian. As related by Eusebius (HE III.20.4), ‘They were asked concerning the Christ and his kingdom, its nature, origin, and time of appearance, and explained that it was neither of the world nor earthly, but heavenly and angelic, and it would be at the end of the world, when he would come in glory to judge the living and the dead and to reward every man according to his deeds.’” (Page 4)

“We have then no indication that the orthodox non-chiliasts known to Irenaeus objected to the resurrection of the flesh” (Page 15)

Product Details

• Title: Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity
• Author: Charles E. Hill
• Edition: Second Edition
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Eschatology › History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600; Millennium › History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9780802846341, 0802846343
• Resource ID: LLS:RGNMCLRCHRSTNTY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:42:58Z

About Charles E. Hill

Dr. Hill, Professor of New Testament, received his doctorate in Divinity from Cambridge University. His undergraduate training was in Fine Art and he worked for a time as a commercial artist before entering seminary. Prior to joining the faculty of RTS, he taught at Northwestern College in Iowa, where he was recognized as Teacher of the Year. He has written articles on New Testament and Patristic topics for various scholarly journals and was a contributor to the New Geneva Study Bible. His first book is now in a second edition, Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity (Eerdmans). His recent book, The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church, is published by Oxford University Press. He is also co-editor of The Glory of the Atonement: Biblical, Historical, and Practical Perspectives (InterVarsity), done in honor of Roger R. Nicole. He is a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Dr. Hill and his wife are raising three children.