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John Duns Scotus on the millennium & Christ's return

C. 1266 – 1308 · SCHOLASTIC
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Amillennial — the millennium is the present church age

THE POSITION

Amillennial by inheritance — the Augustinian reading of Revelation 20 was the unexamined Western default in his period and he does not reopen it.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations. Scotus died in 1308 and the Latin is public domain, but the usable English translations are modern and in copyright, so these positions are paraphrased from standard scholarly accounts rather than reproduced.

7 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AquinasAugustineCalvinTim KellerLutherPhilip MelanchthonR.C. Sproul
Premillennial — Christ returns before a future millenniumBILLY GRAHAM · IRENAEUS · JOHN MACARTHUR · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER
Postmillennial — the gospel triumphs before Christ returnsJONATHAN EDWARDS · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · JOHN OWEN
No required position; several views held faithfullyATHANASIUS · M. HEISER · JOSH HOWERTON · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Franciscan, the Subtle Doctor. Argued for the univocity of being and for a will free in its own right rather than moved by the intellect's judgment — the point where the Franciscan schools part from Aquinas.

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"John Duns Scotus on the millennium & Christ's return", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/scotus/millennium (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/scotus/millennium).

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