Editing Christian eschatology (section)

===Preterism===
[[Preterism]] is a Christian eschatological view that interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism) prophecies of the [[Bible]] as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the [[Book of Daniel]] as referring to events that happened from the 7th century BC until the first century AD, while seeing the prophecies of [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] as events that happened in the [[Christianity in the 1st century|first century AD]]. Preterism holds that [[Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)|Ancient Israel]] finds its [[Supersessionism|continuation or fulfillment]] in the [[Christian church]] at the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70)|destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70]].

Historically, preterists and non-preterists have generally agreed that the Jesuit [[Luis del Alcázar|Luis de Alcasar]] (1554–1613) wrote the first systematic preterist exposition of prophecy, ''Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi'' (published in 1614), during the [[Counter-Reformation]].