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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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    • Greek Orthodox Historicist Revelation Commentaries: The Post-Byzantine Exegetical Movement (1453 to 1922 AD)
    • Saint Neophytos the Recluse (1134-1214)
      • Saint Neophytos the Recluse and the Development of Byzantine Historicist Apocalyptic Thought after 1204
      • Saint Neophytos the Recluse of Cyprus and his Byzantine-era ‘Historicist’ Commentary on Revelation (1200s)
    • George Kalyvas (1522)
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      • Maximos the Peloponnesian: Life, Apocalypse Commentary, and the Foundations of Greek Historicist Exegesis (1610)
    • Christophoros Angelos (1575-1638)
      • Christophoros Angelos (1624): Persecuted Hieromonk and the Birth of Greek Historicism
      • Christophoros Angelos -“Treatise on the Apostasy from the Church, the Antichrist, and the Numbers of Daniel and Revelation”(1624)
    • Zacharias Gerganos (1570-1631)
      • Zacharias Gerganos: A Bridge Figure in Greek Orthodox Historicism (1621 AD)
    • Mitrofanis Kritopoulos (1627)
    • Georgios Koressios (1570-1659)
      • Georgios Koressios of Chios and the Architecture of Post-Byzantine Apocalypse Exegesis
      • Georgios Koressios, Exegesis of the Apocalypse of John (1640)
    • Paissios Ligardis (1655)
    • Saint Anastasios Gordios (1654-1729)
      • 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).
    • Pantazes of Larissa (d. July 22, 1795)
      • Pantazès of Larissa (18th c.) and the Development of Greek Orthodox Historicist Eschatology
    • Metropolitan John Lindios of Myra (1791)
      • 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
    • Patriarch Anthimos of Jerusalem (1717-1808)
      • 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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Greek Orthodox Historicism: A Patristic, Ecclesial, and Historical Interpretation of the Apocalypse From Byzantium to the Modern Era

“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 Historicism, Greek Orthodox Historicism, or Eccelsia Historicism) is a patristically grounded, ecclesial,…Continue reading “Greek Orthodox Historicism: A Patristic, Ecclesial, and Historical Interpretation of the Apocalypse From Byzantium to the Modern Era”

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The Fifth Trumpet as a Christological Woe: Arius, the 150-Year Torment, Conciliar Warfare, and the Ascetical Counter-Movement in Early Orthodoxy

By Jonathan Photius – The NEO-Historicist Research Project Introduction The interpretation of Revelation 9 has long been contested across Christian…

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The Sixth Trumpet and the Great Migration of Nations

Revelation 9 as Political, Demographic, and Spiritual Judgment A Canonical Eastern Orthodox Historicist Interpretation By: Jonathan Photius – The Neo-Historicist…

18Jan 202618 Jan 2026
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Babylon and the Captive Queen: Constantinople, the Prophets, and Revelation in Theodoret of Ioannina

By: Jonathan Photius, The NEO-Historicism Research Project I. Introduction: Why “Babylon” Cannot Be Reduced to Rome Alone Within Christian interpretation…

Book of Revelation…

Today (June 7) We Remember Saint Anastasios Gordios – A Great Father of Eastern Orthodox Historicist Eschatology (1718)

7 Jun 202316 Dec 2025
Every year on June 7th in the Orthodox Church, we commemorate the newly-canonized Saint Anastasios Gordios (born in 1654, died on June 7, 1729). Saint Anastasios was canonized by the…
Book of Revelation…

The Liberation of the Greeks in the Interpretative Work of Theodoret of Ioannina (c. 1740-1823)

6 Jun 202313 Dec 2025
Argyriou, Asterios, "Weather", honorary volume to the colleague Professor Damiano Ath. Doiko, Thessaloniki 1995, pp. 11-24 Translated From Greek to English (May 14, 2023, Jonathan Photius) Codex No. 626 of…
Book of Revelation…

Greek Orthodox Historicist Revelation Commentaries: The Post-Byzantine Exegetical Movement (1453 to 1922 AD)

5 Jun 202316 Dec 2025
The Historicist method of interpreting the prophecies has long been thought to be a Western Christian phenomenon since the Dawn of the Reformation. In fact most Eastern Orthodox Christians today…
Book of Revelation…

Revelation Chapter 14 (Part 1: Rev14:1-5) – A Vision of The Holy Mountain (Ἅγιον Ὄρος) of Orthodoxy and the 144,000

6 Sep 202216 Dec 2025
Revelation 14 is a mysterious chapter of St. John's Apocalypse following the rise of the Two Beasts of Revelation 13 who attempted to destroy the church through external forces and…
Book of Daniel…

Daniel 2 – The Dream of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and Its Interpretation

17 Nov 2021
Introduction The life of the human race, which is the subject or topic of general history, belongs to the past. But the past can be known from the testimony of…
Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition…

The Power That Shall Make Us Victorious

9 Nov 2021
BY APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – August 14th, 1866 We have come to know the principles for which we are to under­take the most…
Book of Revelation…

The Drama of Intoxication: Third and Fourth Scenes

31 Oct 202131 Oct 2021
BY APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – August 7th, 1866 Yesterday we expounded upon the first and the second scenes of the wine-drama. Today we…
Book of Revelation…

The Cup Of The Harlot And The Misfortunes Of Those Intoxicated By It

25 Oct 2021
BY APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – August 6th, 1866 Evils can be wiped out when their cause is determined. In revealing to us the…
Book of Revelation…

The Beast That Bears The Great Harlot

14 Oct 202114 Oct 2021
BY APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – July 31st, 1866 While in last Wednesday’s speech, the mystery of the “great harlot” was revealed to us,…

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  • The πλατεῖα of the Great City: Revelation 11, Conciliar Witness, and the Crucifixion of Wisdom in Constantinople
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  • 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
  • Victorinus of Pettau, the Millennium, and the Byzantine Apocalyptic Horizon
  • Origen, Amillennialism, Augustine, and the Eclipse of the Church’s Historical Body
  • Neo-Montanism? A Cautionary Analogy in Contemporary Orthodox Apocalypticism
  • Allegory, History, and the Millennium: Andrew of Caesarea, Augustine of Hippo, and the Byzantine Grammar of Apocalyptic Time
  • Reconstructing the ‘Lost Commentary on Daniel’ of Theodoret of Ioannina († c. 1823)
  • Theodoret of Ioannina and the Orthodox Reconstruction of Sacred History (1817): A Non-Augustinian Eschatology
  • Theodoret of Ioannina: Apocalypse, Empire, and Orthodox History
  • The Peals of Thunder and the Restoration of the Bride
  • Daniel 7, Revelation 11, and the Christological Trial of History
  • Georgios Koressios of Chios and the Architecture of Post-Byzantine Apocalypse Exegesis
  • Christophoros Angelos (1624): Persecuted Hieromonk and the Birth of Greek Historicism
  • The Olivet Discourse as a Historicist Prophecy of the Church Age
  • Saint Neophytos the Recluse and the Development of Byzantine Historicist Apocalyptic Thought after 1204
  • Zacharias Gerganos: A Bridge Figure in Greek Orthodox Historicism (1621 AD)
  • Maximos the Peloponnesian: Life, Apocalypse Commentary, and the Foundations of Greek Historicist Exegesis (1610)

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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