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NEO-Historicism – End Times Eschatology From An Eastern Orthodox Christian Historicist Perspective

“(…) in a time of times and a half of a time, when the dispersion hath been consummated, all these things shall become known.” – Daniel 12:8 (Theodotion)

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      • Saint Anastasios Gordios and the Formation of the Orthodox Historicist Eschtalogical Tradition
      • Today (June 7) We Remember Saint Anastasios Gordios – A Great Father of Eastern Orthodox Historicist Eschatology (1718)
    • Nektarios Terpos (1732)
      • Nektarios Terpos – Forerunner of the Neo-Hellenic Movement of Modern Greece
    • Eustratios Argentis (early 1700s, died 1750).
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      • Pantazès of Larissa (18th c.) and the Development of Greek Orthodox Historicist Eschatology
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      • Metropolitan John Lindios of Myra – “Interpretation of the Apocalypse” (1791 AD)
      • Metropolitan John of Myra and the Mystical Foundations of Eastern Orthodox Historicism
    • Theodoret of Ioannina (1740–1823)
      • Babylon and the Captive Queen: Constantinople, the Prophets, and Revelation in Theodoret of Ioannina
      • Theodoret of Ioannina: Apocalypse, Empire, and Orthodox History
      • Theodoret of Ioannina and the Orthodox Reconstruction of Sacred History (1817): A Non-Augustinian Eschatology
      • The Liberation of the Greeks in the Interpretative Work of Theodoret of Ioannina (c. 1740-1823)
      • Reconstructing the ‘Lost Commentary on Daniel’ of Theodoret of Ioannina († c. 1823)
    • Cyril Lavriotis (1742-1829)
      • Kyrillos Lavriotis of Patras – “Exegesis on the Apocalypse” (1817)
      • Cyril Lavriotis of Patras and the Emergence of Greek Orthodox Historicist Exegesis of the Apocalypse
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      • Patriarch Anthimos of Jerusalem and His Commentary on the Apocalypse (1795)
    • Apostolos Makrakis (1831-1905)
      • Apostolos Makrakis and the Unfinished Revolution
    • Nikolaos Damalas (1842-1892)
    • Neilos Sotiropoulos (1973)
      • Neilos Sotiropoulos and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Historicism
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Neo-Historicism: A Nicene Ecclesial Orthodox Interpretation of the Apocalypse

Recovering the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Tradition of Prophetic Interpretation “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the consummation, until many shall have been taught and knowledge shall have been multiplied.“ – Daniel 12:4 (Theodotion-Greek) Neo-Historicism (also referred to as Eastern Orthodox Historicism, Greek…Continue reading “Neo-Historicism: A Nicene Ecclesial Orthodox Interpretation of the Apocalypse”

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The Bound Dragon Problem: Why Revelation 12 Challenges the Preterist-Idealist Postmillennial Paradigm

By: Jonathan Photius – The NEO-Historicist Research Project Introduction One of the most influential eschatological syntheses in modern evangelical theology…

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Martin Luther, Mohammed, and the Little Horn of Daniel 7: Reassessing Early Protestant Historicism and the Ottoman Apocalypse

By: Jonathan Photius – The nEO-Historicist Research Project I. Introduction Reconsidering the Ottoman Dimension of Early Protestant Historicism The dominant…

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Nero, 666, and the Missing Commentary Tradition: A Historical Reassessment of the Modern Preterist Appeal to the Fathers

Introduction One of the most common historical claims advanced by modern Preterists—both Full and Partial—is that the early Church understood…

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Daniel Chapter 7 – The 2520-year ‘Gentile Reign’ of the Holy Land by the Great Mediterranean Empires of History

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The prophecies found in the book of Daniel provide an amazing look into future history of Israel.   Many of the chapters schematically provide the duration of exile and punishment, the…
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Answering Common Objections by Jews on Daniel’s 70 Weeks’s Prophecy (Part 1)

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The Missing 165 Years In Jewish History Intentionally Hides The Ability To Correctly Calculate Jesus as the Anointed Messiah Introduction In my previous article, the prophecy of of Daniel's Seventy Weeks was analyzed…
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Daniel Chapter 9 – The Most Perfect Prophecy in the Bible Proving That Jesus is Messiah and King of the Jews

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Daniel’s Seventy Week’s prophecy might provide strongest evidence yet proving that Jesus was the Christ and God-Man, while foretelling the eventual acceptance of the Diaspora Jews to this Truth. "But…
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The “Seven Times” Punishment and Restoration of the Jewish Nation

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Examining the prophetic evidence in the scriptures for a 1948 AD and 1967 AD return of the Jews, and perhaps their future conversion and temple construction   State of Israel…
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Interpreting Key Symbols Used to Decode Prophecies on the “End-Times”

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An Analysis of the Mysterious Heavenly Bodies Used in the Olivet Discourse and the Book of Revelation   Introduction THE BIBLE TELLS US there are to be signs in the…
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The Olivet Discourse – Worth Another Look

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The Olivet Discourse, also called the “Little Apocalypse,” describes a period great persecution and tribulation beginning with the early church up until the “end of the age.” "LET THE READER…
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Revelation Chapter 16 – The Dawn of the Reformation, Renaissance, Colonialism and Revolution

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  In Revelation Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 we focused on key events which occurred in the Church in the Middle Ages, or from the time of the fall of…
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Revelation Chapters 12: Victory over Paganism, Christological Crisis & the Age of the Councils, Rise of Monasticism, the Iconoclast Controversy & the New Age of Persecution

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Introduction IN THIS NEXT article in a series of on the Book of Revelation, we will examine closely Revelation chapter 12 and revisit portions of chapter 11. Typically most commentators…
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Revelation Chapters 7 to 9 – Persecution and Heresy In The Early Church

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St. John's Prophecy on the Church's Christological Crisis - From The Ante-Nicene Times Until The Fall of Rome   . Introduction Revelation chapters seven, eight and nine are an interesting…

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  • The First Resurrection and the Reign of the Saints: Andrew of Caesarea and the Ecclesial Millennium
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  • From the Seven Councils to the Fall of Empire: John of Myra, Theodoret of Ioannina, and the Apocalypse as Church History
  • Modern Orthodox Futurism: How Dispensational Ideas Entered Orthodox Prophecy Culture
  • Armageddon and the Slaughter of Nations
  • Ecclesial Historicism: Recovering the Long View of Daniel and Revelation in Orthodox Interpretation
  • From Third Rome to Fallen Babylon
  • Why Protestant Postmillennialism Stops Short of Byzantine Historic Postmillennialism
  • The Fifth Trumpet as a Christological Woe: Arius, the 150-Year Torment, Conciliar Warfare, and the Ascetical Counter-Movement in Early Orthodoxy
  • The Sixth Trumpet and the Great Migration of Nations
  • Babylon and the Captive Queen: Constantinople, the Prophets, and Revelation in Theodoret of Ioannina
  • The πλατεῖα of the Great City: Revelation 11, Conciliar Witness, and the Crucifixion of Wisdom in Constantinople
  • Apostolos Makrakis and the Unfinished Revolution
  • Neilos Sotiropoulos and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Historicism
  • Cyril Lavriotis of Patras and the Emergence of Greek Orthodox Historicist Exegesis of the Apocalypse
  • Why Chiliasm Declined: What the Ecumenical Councils Actually Condemned—and What They Did Not
  • Byzantine Historic Postmillennialism in Comparative Perspective
  • “Here Is Wisdom”: Reconsidering Revelation 13:18, the Number 616, and the Christological Logic of the Apocalypse

Books on Eastern Orthodox Historicist Eschatology

Seven Times Unto The Dispersion Consummation

The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Book of Revelation

The Interpretation of the Book of Revelation by Apostolos Makrakis

Hellenism and the Unfinished Revolution

Day of the Christ Pantocrator Sky – August 11th, 1999

 

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