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The Kingdom of Israel
John Shepard
April 8, 2002
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The purpose of this article is to show at a glance what the early church fathers believed regarding the end-times.
I have analyzed the end-time viewpoint of 31 Early Church Fathers up to and including Augustine. The results:
10 were premillennial and 5 (or more) were amillennial.
13 were NOT premillennial and 7 were NOT amillennial.
In conclusion, it is not correct to say (as many premillennialists do) that the early church fathers were premillennialists.
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I analyzed the writings of each of the major early church fathers (or writings from others about their views) and categorized them according to their end-time viewpoint. This page list the results of this study.
Premillennial
- Yes — 10
Note: in the following, a writer may fall into more than one category Based on 6,000 years of human history (which is wrong) — 5
End didn't come when they said — 2
Different than modern ideas — 10
Had amillennial ideas — 1
Definite — 7
Probable — 3
- No — 13
Definite — 9
Probable — 4
- Wrote nothing one way or the other — 6
- Other — 2
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Total — 31
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Amillennial
Since this study was not to determine if a writer was amillennial there are more entries under "other" then there might be otherwise.
- Yes — 5
- No — 7
- Wrote nothing one way or the other — 6
- Other — 13
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Total — 31
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