The "historicist" view was the main method of prophetic interpretation of all the reformers and puritans and pre-20th century protestants. This is seen in the book,
The Puritan Hope by Iain Murray and in Jonathan Edwards' famous work,
A History of Redemption and in the writings of Charles Hodge and Patrick Fairbairn and Alexander Hislop's
Two Babylons book.
Steve Gregg's book,
Revelation: Four View: A Parrallel Comentary also has the Historicist view in it. However, this view has been since discredited by current scholars as seen in the book,
Four Views of Revelation edited by Marvin Pate. He writes:
"
This volume incorporates the current, prevailing interpretations of Revelation. Thus, while the Historicist approach once was widespread, today for all practical purposes, it has passed from the scene. Its failed attempts to locate the fulfillment of Revelation in the course of the cirmcumstances of history has doomed it to continual revision as time passed and, ultimately, to obscurity... . Moreover, the lack of concensus among interpreters as to the identification of historical details that supposedly fulfill the prophecies of the Apocalypse contributed to the school's demise." p.18" This is mainly seen in the Historicist use of the so called "Year Day theory" (1260 days=1260 years).
Dr Francis Nigel Lee of Australia, is the only scholar left who still maintains the Historicist method of prophetic interpretation. Dr. Ian Paisley of Northern Ireland is one of the few remaining protestants who vigorously maintains it in practice (as seen by his famous
1988 public protest against the Pope's visit[/u] to the European Parliament and his public denouncement of the Pope as "Antichrist").
[u]Dr. Paisley then went on radio[/u] and defended his historicist eschatology for justification of his protest. He later reprinted the historicist, J.A. Wylie's book,
[u]The Papacy is the Antichrist.
Colin (a former Historicist turned
orthodox preterist).
