historicism has been held pretty much the same from antique through medieval through modern times there were a few outliers at first it's not until you get to the counter reformation that you begin to get large promotion of futurism and preterism both of which were invented and designed by jesuits as a specific challenge to protestant historicism its interesting the catholic futurism and modern critical scholarship find their basis in porphyry a pagan philosopher who railed against christianity and especially against bible prophecy in the th century i don't find it at all curious that john j collins as a catholic promotes modern scholarship and futurism its what i'd expect whenever you take on any part of the topic of bible prophecy you can expect that it is a huge undertaking because there is nothing simple about it one might limit oneself to just a single viewpoint but that's not what wikipedia is about you have to have a npov and to do that with bible prophecy you have to discuss just about every aspect of it