The Latin Chiliasm of the 3rd-4th Centuries
The Latin Chiliasm of the 3rd-4th centuries. The article considers the Latin chiliasm of the 3-4 centuries basing on the following classification of the chiliastic and anti-chiliastic ideas: millenarism, premillenarism, postmillenarism, amillenarism. The chiliastic views are estimated according to literal or symbolic interpretation of the chapter 20 of the Apocalypse. The former tendency includes the ideas of Commodianus and Lactantius, the latter — those of Tertullian. St. Victorinus of Petava comes in between: he organically combines literal approach with the symbolic one.