The origin of medieval apocalyptism In prior articles I elaborated that most of the end of the world doom prophecy had come from the West, that the Orthodox after an initial pan-Christian apocalyptic fervor, had by the 4th century settled on a conservative amillennial position. However, lately I have come to find that the post […]
HIS KINGDOM HAS NO END. The Creed from a different angle.
After becoming Orthodox, but after being unable to revert to Futurism, I began to entertain in my mind revisions to the Creed so as to make it compatible with “realized” eschatology. One of those “revisions” I came up with, which I thought would not alter orthodox theology, was to instead of Whose kingdom will have […]
THE ENDLESS KINGDOM OF CHRIST. A Discussion of the Old and New Believers’ texts of the Creed
by deacon Valery Timofieiev. Translation, links & illustration by Frank Pax.* In the Creed adopted by the New Believers, instead of the ancient “to His kingdom there is no end,” there is the following: “to His kingdom there will be no end.” In order to correctly assess the catastrophism of the change from the ancient […]