Christian faith, if real, is not a conviction, although it entails some. It must not be regarded as a coincidence that fanaticism, later transferred to secular ideologies, was developed inside Christianity only where faith was becoming an ideology, e.g. in the medieval west and in Russia.

In the previous post we saw how biblical genealogies influenced the way people conceived the age of the world and the duration of history. We also saw that patristic thinking does not favor utopian and chiliastic tendencies.

If the interest of Christianity is less in the history of the world or in the Second Coming as an external global event, and rather in the inner and continuous personal relationship of each Christian with God, utopian and chiliastic attitudes cannot be attributed to Christianity, but to the distortion of it.

Let those who ‘accuse’ John’s Revelation remember that all Christian churches accept this book in the Canon of the Bible, but not all Churches developed obsessions with eschatological times.