HSST 2310 Lecture 6 GREAT CHURCH ESCHATOLOGY Major Authors and Perspectives

Review ends at 18:10 Vision of Isaiah Didache Simon bar Kokhba (d. 135) Justin Martyr (c. 100–165))

I. Great-Church Themes (Continued) Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–c. 130) Jewish World Week: 6000 years Hippolytus: 5500 years

II. Symbolist Exegesis Christological: Rock in desert = Christ, 1 Cor 10:4 Sacramental: Manna in Desert = Eucharist, Jn 6:49 Ecclesiological: Child of free wife = Church, Gal 4:27 Eschatological: Noe’s flood = End times, Mt 24:37–39 Spiritual: Hagar and Sara = Spirit and Flesh, Gal 4:29–31 Moral: Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 B.C.–c. A.D. 50)

III. Origen of Alexandria (c. 185=254) Ammonius Saccas (c. 175–c. 242) Catechetical School of Alexandria Caesarea Hexapla Decian Persecution, 250 Little Apocalypses (Mt 24–25, Mk 13, Lk 21) = Fall of Jerusalem, 70

IV. Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325) Divine Institutes Death of the Persecutors Diocletian’s Persecution, 303–312 The Syrian Tyrant = “Son of the Devil” “Premillennialism”

Lecture 7 GREAT CHURCH ESCHATOLOGY Hermeneutical Trends

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I. The World Ends! Constantius Clorus (reign 293–306) 2

Maxentius (reign 306–312) Constantine the Great (reign, 306–337), conversion, 312 Theodosius I (reign, 379–395) ends pagan worship, 384 Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260–340)

II. Augustine's Dissent from Premillennialism Vandal sack of Rome, 410 Alaric the Visigoth (c. 370–410) Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols. (1776–1789): 1.15 Magnum Opus et Arduum

III. The Patristic Period “Day of Lord” Eschatological Dimension of Primitive Christianity Late Role of Revelation of John

IV. Hermeneutical Perspectives “Premillennarialism” Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130–c. 202) Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170–235) Key text: Second Letter to the Thessalonians Two bodily resurrections “Amillennarialism” Origen (c. 185=254) Key text: First Letter of John Millennium = a spiritual state “Postmillennarialism” Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Key texts: Synoptic Little Apocalypses (Mt 24–25, Mk 13, Lk 21) Two resurrections: one spiritual; one bodily Revelation bypassed Desacralization of Christian Roman Empire