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EARLY CHURCH
Ambrose
Ambrose, Pseudo
Andreas
Arethas
Aphrahat
Athanasius
Augustine
Barnabus
BarSerapion
Baruch, Pseudo
Bede
Chrysostom
Chrysostom, Pseudo
Clement, Alexandria
Clement, Rome
Clement, Pseudo
Cyprian
Ephraem
Epiphanes
Eusebius
Gregory
Hegesippus
Hippolytus
Ignatius
Irenaeus
Isidore
James
Jerome
King Jesus
Apostle John
Lactantius
Luke
Mark
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
Matthew
Melito
Oecumenius
Origen
Apostle Paul
Apostle Peter
Maurus Rabanus
Remigius
"Solomon"
Severus
St.
Symeon
Tertullian
Theophylact
Victorinus
HISTORICAL PRETERISM
(Minor Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation
in Past)
Joseph Addison
Oswald T. Allis
Thomas Aquinas
Karl Auberlen
Augustine
Albert Barnes
Karl Barth
G.K. Beale
Beasley-Murray
John Bengel
Wilhelm Bousset
John A. Broadus
David Brown
"Haddington Brown"
F.F. Bruce
Augustin Calmut
John Calvin
B.H. Carroll
Johannes Cocceius
Vern Crisler
Thomas Dekker
Wilhelm De Wette
Philip Doddridge
Isaak Dorner
Dutch Annotators
Alfred Edersheim
Jonathan Edwards
E.B.
Elliott
Heinrich Ewald
Patrick Fairbairn
Js. Farquharson
A.R. Fausset
Robert Fleming
Hermann Gebhardt
Geneva Bible
Charles Homer Giblin
John Gill
William Gilpin
W.B. Godbey
Ezra Gould
Hank Hanegraaff
Hengstenberg
Matthew Henry
G.A. Henty
George Holford
Johann von Hug
William Hurte
J, F, and Brown
B.W. Johnson
John Jortin
Benjamin Keach
K.F. Keil
Henry Kett
Richard Knatchbull
Johann Lange
Cornelius Lapide
Nathaniel Lardner
Jean Le Clerc
Peter Leithart
Jack P. Lewis
Abiel Livermore
John Locke
Martin Luther
James MacDonald
James MacKnight
Dave MacPherson
Keith Mathison
Philip Mauro
Thomas Manton
Heinrich Meyer
J.D. Michaelis
Johann Neander
Sir Isaac Newton
Thomas Newton
Stafford North
Dr. John Owen
Blaise Pascal
William W. Patton
Arthur Pink
Thomas Pyle
Maurus Rabanus
St. Remigius
Anne Rice
Kim Riddlebarger
J.C. Robertson
Edward Robinson
Andrew Sandlin
Johann Schabalie
Philip Schaff
Thomas Scott
C.J. Seraiah
Daniel Smith
Dr. John
Smith
C.H. Spurgeon
Rudolph E. Stier
A.H. Strong
St. Symeon
Theophylact
Friedrich Tholuck
George Townsend
James Ussher
Wm. Warburton
Benjamin Warfield
Noah Webster
John Wesley
B.F. Westcott
William Whiston
Herman Witsius
N.T. Wright
John Wycliffe
Richard Wynne
C.F.J. Zullig
MODERN PRETERISTS
(Major Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation
in Past)
Firmin Abauzit
Jay Adams
Luis Alcazar
Greg Bahnsen
Beausobre, L'Enfant
Jacques Bousset
John L. Bray
David Brewster
Dr. John Brown
Thomas Brown
Newcombe Cappe
David Chilton
Adam Clarke
Henry Cowles
Ephraim Currier
R.W. Dale
Gary DeMar
P.S. Desprez
Johann Eichhorn
Heneage Elsley
F.W. Farrar
Samuel Frost
Kenneth Gentry
Steve Gregg
Hugo Grotius
Francis X. Gumerlock
Henry Hammond
Hampden-Cook
Friedrich Hartwig
Adolph Hausrath
Thomas
Hayne
J.G. Herder
Timothy Kenrick
J. Marcellus Kik
Samuel Lee
Peter Leithart
John Lightfoot
Benjamin Marshall
F.D. Maurice
Marion Morris
Ovid Need, Jr
Wm. Newcombe
N.A. Nisbett
Gary North
Randall Otto
Zachary Pearce
Andrew Perriman
Beilby Porteus
Ernst Renan
Gregory Sharpe
Fr. Spadafora
R.C. Sproul
Moses Stuart
Milton S. Terry
Herbert
Thorndike
C. Vanderwaal
Foy Wallace
Israel P.
Warren
Chas Wellbeloved
J.J. Wetstein
Richard Weymouth
Daniel Whitby
George Wilkins
E.P. Woodward
FUTURISTS
(Virtually No Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 & Revelation in 1st
C. - Types Only ; Also Included are "Higher Critics" Not Associated With Any
Particular Eschatology)
Henry Alford
G.C. Berkower
Alan Patrick Boyd
John Bradford
Wm.
Burkitt
George Caird
Conybeare/ Howson
John Crossan
John N. Darby
C.H. Dodd
E.B. Elliott
G.S.
Faber
Jerry Falwell
Charles G. Finney
J.P. Green Sr.
Murray Harris
Thomas Ice
Benjamin Jowett
John N.D. Kelly
Hal Lindsey
John MacArthur
William Miller
Robert Mounce
Eduard Reuss
J.A.T. Robinson
George Rosenmuller
D.S. Russell
George Sandison
C.I. Scofield
Dr. John Smith
Norman Snaith
"Televangelists"
Thomas Torrance
Jack/Rex VanImpe
John Walvoord
Quakers :
George Fox |
Margaret Fell (Fox) |
Isaac Penington
PRETERIST UNIVERSALISM |
MODERN PRETERISM |
PRETERIST IDEALISM
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Doctrinal
Classifications
and Color Key
The Method of Presentation at PreteristArchive.com
By Todd Dennis (todd @ preteristarchive.com)
These classifications are the backbone
of the entire PreteristArchive.com project. They are 15 years in the making, and are intended as the clearest and simplest means of
distinguishing between all forms of preterist theology.
The color key is a quick way to select the doctrinal material you desire,
while avoiding that which you do not.
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PreteristArchive.com Doctrinal Classes
& Color Key
AUTHOR CLASSIFICATIONS ARE GENERALLY BASED
UPON AT WHAT POINT A "TRANSITION" IS SEEN
FROM EVENTS OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM IN AD70 TO
EVENTS OF "THE FUTURE"
TRANSITION IN OLIVET DISCOURSE (MATTHEW 24/25)
| Systems |
Futurism |
Historical |
Modern |
Hyper |
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Fulfillment Transitions From AD70 to Future |
None, All Future |
Mid-way thru Matt. 24 |
Somewhere in Matt. 25 |
None, All Past |
TRANSITION IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
| Systems |
Futurism |
Historical |
Modern |
Hyper |
| Where
Fulfillment Transitions From AD70 to Future |
B4 Revelation 4 |
B4 Revelation 13 |
B4 Revelation 20 |
None, All Past |
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DOCTRINAL
CLASSIFICATIONS
JEWISH SOURCES - Comments from Josephus,
the Talmud, Midrashim, and Apocalyptic Literature. Contemporary
Jewish literature is also collected under the classification.
Though many early Christians are Jewish, they are classified
under "Early Church".
DEAD SEA SCROLLS - Materials
Unearthed From Judean Wilderness
(From roughly
second century B.C. to A.D.68 - Color coded with Jewish Sources)
Where Fulfillment Transitions From AD70 to Future -
Almost All Future, Except Matthew 24:1,2 and Luke 21:24b
FUTURIST -
A) Umbrella term covering all systems of nonfulfillment-based
theology, including most contemporary forms of Historicism and Premillennialism,
and some Postmillennialism.
B) This class, though represented by authors throughout the centuries, wasn't systematized
until the Reformation era. C)
Generally believes that some "end times" prophecy may have been fulfilled in the first century, but only
in a typological sense, which foreshadowed ultimate fulfillment "in the future."
Dispensationalism
specifically believes that
"the rapture"
might be any moment now, leading to the Great Tribulation and ultimately
ushering in the Millennial Age.
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EARLY
CHURCH (EC) - A) Views espoused by all Christian
sources during the first thousand years of church history, during which the only
systematizing being done was in Catholic and Orthodox circles. B)
This class includes all the earliest church fathers, historians and pseudepigraphic writers,
dating back to the writings of the New Testament. C) Sources could be considered "Historicist" or
"Futurist" but very rarely "Preterist" in any developed way (Eusebius
would be the most likely to be considered Preterist)
(Broadest in Years,
Broadest in Doctrine - First Thousand Years of Church History - Pret-related
comments color-coded with "Historical Preterism" due to similarities)
HISTORICAL PRETERISM
(HP)
- A) Umbrella term covering all those who believe that only a
slight amount of Bible prophecy was totally fulfilled in the early centuries
of the Christian era. Determined by looking at where authors
find a "transition" from the past to the future using the Olivet Discourse
of Matthew 24/25 and the Apocalypse of John.
B) This class has roots dating back to the
first century, such as in the writings of
Barnabus and
Clement of Rome, and finds
greater development in the writings of
Justin Martyr and
Eusebius. The Catholic and
Orthodox churches maintained HP through the Middle Ages. Today's
contemporary forms were largely developed in the
writings of
Calvin,
Luther,
Grotius and
Lightfoot. C) Teaches that
some of the Bible's "end times" prophecies were fulfilled by AD70, but that
the substantial portion of prophetic fulfillment is yet to be revealed at the "last day."
Transitions in the Middle of Matthew 24, or in the Middle of the Apocalypse
of John.
MODERN PRETERISM
(MP)
- A)
Umbrella term covering all those who believe that the majority of
Bible prophecy was totally fulfilled in the early centuries of the
Christian era. Determined by looking at where authors find a
"transition" from the past to the future using the Olivet Discourse
of Matthew 24/25 and the Apocalypse of John. Differs
from Full Preterism in that it does not make the Parousia, the
General Judgment, nor the General Resurrection events solely of the
past.
B) According to known literature, this class emerged during the
Reformation or Counter Reformation and can be seen in a
fully developed form at
the beginning of the 17th century in the writings of the
Jesuit Alcasar -- although many
believe that the "Preterist
Assumption" seen throughout church history reveals the ancient
and medieval equivalents of the Modern Preterist view. (perhaps systematized
the most consistenty in 310 by
Eusebius
in "Theophany").
C) Teaches that the bulk of
"end times" prophecy
has sole application
to ancient Israel, but that some regards the "last day" -- sometimes
that "end" being personal, not global, in nature.
Transitions somewhere in Matthew 25, or near the end of the
Apocalypse of John.
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FULL PRETERISM/"SYSTEMATIC
HYPER PRETERISM" (HyP) = A) That view
which makes AD70 the terminal date for certain key Bible prophecies.
Includes, but is not limited to, all preterist views which declare that the
consummation of the ages, and the utter terminal date for all Bible prophecy, in
AD70. Included in the HyP classification is that view of "The Second
and Only Coming of Jesus in AD70". Those with
dangerous doctrines based upon total AD70 fulfillment - such as
Noyes - are likewise grouped in this
classification. B) According to known literature, this system did not
emerge until the middle of the 19th century, though individual HyP doctrines
can be seen in the writings of earlier
Preterist Universalists. The earliest known
systematic
Hyper Preterist book was written in 1845, though the author later abandoned the
view. C) Believes that all Bible prophecy was totally fulfilled by AD70;
or that the Parousia, General
Judgment and General Resurrection were fulfilled then -- which places this
class outside of general church "orthodoxy." (Narrowest Range in Time
and Doctrine - Earliest Known Representatives,
Townley
(1845) and
Desprez (1854), both left the view)
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Warning: "Full Preterist" material is being archived for balanced representation of all Christian Preterist views, but its premise is
deemed by the curator (a full preterist for over a decade) to be "toxic theology"
and "Hyper Preterist". Due to its brash and "letter-based" appeal to the flesh and
"things seen," it very subtly draws people away from the truth of the Spirit and His "unseen things" (core components
of the system being extra-biblical history and logic -- because there is not one full preterist verse which looks back to fulfillment in ad70,
it is based entirely upon deductive reasoning).
Please note that the earliest known adherents of full preterism later abandoned it, as have many contemporary former full peterists, including the
curator of this archive. The main reason
is a mishandling of the biblical types and shadows.. declaring them to instead
be the substance to which they point! The "past spiritual resurrection" view is the theology that Paul condemned in II Timothy 2:17-18,
and the cessationism of this view likewise overthrows the faith and hope of many -- by doctrinal design -- so please proceed with extreme caution.
If you are interested in the doctrinal reasons why I left the view,
see here - TD |
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DISTINCTIVE DOCTRINES TAUGHT BY STANDARD
FULL PRETERISM
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All Bible Prophecy was Fulfilled By AD70
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Atonement Incomplete at Cross ;
Complete at AD70
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The Supernatural Power of Evil
Ended in AD70
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The Spirit of Antichrist was
Destroyed in AD70
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"The Consummation of the Ages"
Came in AD70
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"The Millennium" is in the Past, From
AD30 to AD70
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Nothing to be Resurrected From
in Post AD70 World ; Hades Destroyed
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The Christian Age Began in AD70
; Earth Will Never End
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"The Day of the Lord" was Israel's
Destruction ending in AD70
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The "Second Coming" of Jesus
Christ Took Place in AD70-ish
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The Great Judgment took place
in AD70 ; No Future Judgment
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The Law, Death, Sin, Devil,
Hades, etc. Utterly Defeated in AD70
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"The Resurrection"
of the Dead and Living is Past, Having Taken
Place in AD70
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The Context of the Entire Bible
is Pre-AD70 ; Not Written To Post AD70 World
DISTINCTIVE DOCTRINES TAUGHT BY VARIOUS FORMS
(under construction)
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Baptism was for Pre-AD70 Era (Cessationism)
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The Lord's Prayer was for Pre-AD70
Era (Cessationism)
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The Lord's Supper was for Pre-AD70
Era (Cessationism)
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The Holy Spirit's Paraclete Work
Ceased in AD70 (Cessationism)
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The Consummation in AD70 Caused
Church Offices to Cease (Cessationism)
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The Resurrection in AD70 Changed
the "Constitutional Principle" of Marriage (Noyesism)
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Israel and Humanity Delivered into
Ultimate Liberty in AD70 (TransmillennialismTM)
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The Judgment in AD70 Reconciled All
of Mankind to God ; All Saved (Preterist Universalism)
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Adam's Sin No Longer Imputed in
Post AD70 World ; No Need to be Born Again (Preterist Universalism)
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When Jesus Delivered the Kingdom to
the Father in AD70, He Ceased Being The Intermediary (Pantelism/Comprehensive
Grace?)
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The Book of Genesis is an
Apocalypse; is About Creation of First Covenant Man, not First Historical
Man (Covenantal Preterism)
PRETERIST-IDEALISM
(PI, aka Modern Idealism) -
A) Umbrella term
covering those who see the
true focus of Bible prophecy as the work of Jesus Christ throughout all
ages. Historical
fulfillments in the history of natural Israel - notably in the events of
Moses' and Jesus' generations
- are
seen as the outward "typological" show of the everlasting work of Christ. B)
Though Idealism has been taught by
spiritually minded writers
throughout the Christian era (such as the Allegorists,
Quakers, Swedeborgians,
Medieval Monks, and countless
others),
very seldom have forms utilizing a "Preterist
modifier" been published.
Saint Augustine is considered the
father of Idealism, though systems anchored historically by the
Preterist view are only
now being developed among Modern Preterists. Those
forms of
Idealism without the "Preterist modifier" often qualify as Historicism
or Futurism C) The spectrum of
known systems range from those more heavily Idealist (looking to Christ
for the substance of prophecy) to those more heavily Preterist (looking
to history for
the substance of prophecy).
(Fundamentally neither preterist nor futurist ;
PreteristArchive.com's
native approach ;
More Information Here)
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