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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 Neophytos the Recluse (1134-1214)
      • Saint Neophytos the Recluse and the Development of Byzantine Historicist Apocalyptic Thought after 1204
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      • Maximos the Peloponnesian: Life, Apocalypse Commentary, and the Foundations of Greek Historicist Exegesis (1610)
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      • 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)
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      • 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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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…

26May 202626 May 2026
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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…

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…
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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…
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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,…
Book of Revelation…

616 – The Alternate ‘Number of the Beast’ of Revelation 13 Identifies the Mark of the True Lamb Standing on Mount Zion

4 Sep 202116 Dec 2025
"Time and experience will reveal to sober researchers the precision of the number and the other things written about it." - St. Andrew of Caesarea Evidence from a fragment known…
Book of Revelation…

The Roman Church In The Image Of The “Great Harlot That Sitteth Upon Many Waters”

22 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – July 27th, 1866 In our previous address we explained the dragon-like nature of the pseudo-Christ Pope, another of our enemies, by…
Book of Revelation…

Our Other Adversary: The Pseudo-Christ Pope

14 Aug 2021
BY APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS Delivered in Concord Square the City of Athens, Greece – July 24th, 1866 The interpretation of the related divine words of Scripture has led us to the recognition…

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  • Nero, 666, and the Missing Commentary Tradition: A Historical Reassessment of the Modern Preterist Appeal to the Fathers
  • Ecclesial Historicism: Recovering the Long View of Daniel and Revelation in Orthodox Interpretation
  • The Woman of Revelation 12-1, According to the Interpretation of the First Eight Centuries
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  • Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Mahometanism, and the Prophetic Fall of Islamic Empire: A Forgotten Roman Catholic Historicist Witness
  • Rome, New Rome, and the Seven Hills: Oecumenius, Andrew of Caesarea, and the Historical Transfer of Apocalyptic Symbolism in the Orthodox Tradition
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  • Oecumenius and the Historical Imagination of Byzantine Apocalypticism
  • The First Resurrection and the Reign of the Saints: Andrew of Caesarea and the Ecclesial Millennium
  • Arethas of Caesarea and the Orgins of Orthodox Historicism: Revelation 13, the Saracens, and the Byzantine Apocalypse Tradition
  • 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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