Premillennialism in the Ante-Nicene Church: Why the Divide in the Early Church on Chiliasm?

Generally scholars of systematic theology and patristics are in agreement that the earliest view of eschatology in the Church is premillennialism. From the late first century until the time of Augustine in the fourth century, some form of premillenial expectation of Jesus’ return was either the dominant view, or held by a number of prominent leaders and theologians of the Church...