Talk:Historicism (Christian eschatology)

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[edit] Not just Adventist related

Historicism was the position of many Protestant divines prior to the 1830s, and even to some after that. The article is not just related to Seventh-day Adventism. DFH 21:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful additions DFH. I added the Seventh-day Adventist related comments, as this is my area of knowledge, but am well aware that many Protestants including many/most(?) of the Reformers supported historicism. -Colin MacLaurin 05:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes - most of the Reformers, as the following quote illustrates:[1]

"This was the principle theory which attracted the attention of the most orthodox and enlightened expositors until the earliest part of this century. It looks upon prophecy as an actual anticipation of veritable history. It regards each seal as successor to the preceding, in chronological order; each trumpet and each vial in the same way; and, objecting to the previous theory, maintains that the septenary of trumpets are subsequent to the septenary of seals, and the septenary of vials subsequent to the septenary of trumpets. The exclusive church scheme is discarded, and the Apocalypse is viewed as setting forth, in regular progression and detail, the chief secular and ecclesiastical events of the existing dispensation. An anti-Papal solution is given to the symbols and predictions respecting the "Beast." It was the theory of the Waldenses, Wickliffites, and Hussites; and the great body of the Reformers in the 16th century-German, Swiss, French, English, generally received it. It has been the view of the vast majority of Scottish presbyterians. It was also the view of many prominent American divines, from Edwards to the 19th century Princeton theologians-the Alexanders, the Hodges, Miller, etc. It is preeminently the theory of the Reformation, and therefore has been violently opposed by Roman Catholics, prelatists, rationalising expositors and other foes of reformational principles."-L'Avenir

DFH 17:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links - not SPAM

I have added some more links today, which are intended for providing the reader with further information. They are not linkspam - I have no connection with any of the sites. DFH 22:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)