Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millenial Thought in Early ChristianityRegnum Caelorum is a groundbreaking book that explores the largely overlooked connection in early Christian thought between understandings of the millennium and the intermediate state of the soul after death. Charles Hill traces Christian views of the soul's fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and in early Christian writers through the mid third century A. D. His findings lead to a provocative new assessment of the development of Christian