Collins, Brian C <br/><br/>
Were the Fathers Amillennial?   An Evaluation of Charles Hill's Regnum Caelorum 

 - Dallas;   Dallas Theological Seminary,   Jun 2020 
 - Pages 207-220 
<br/><br/> Charles Hill's Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity seeks to reverse the one time consensus that the earliest church fathers held to amillennial, viewpoint. At the heart of Hill's argument is the claim that early millennialism and amillennialism were part of systems of eschatology in which fathers who held to the millennial  position also held to a subterranean intermediate state whereas fathers who held to the amillennial position also held to a heavenly intermediate state. Working from this claim, Hill asserts that a number of early fathers, along with the New Testament writers, held the amillenniial position. This study demonstrates the linkage of millennial vies and vies of the intermediate state to be faulty on the grounds that the early Irenaeus held to both a heavenly intermediate state and to a millennium.