chiliasm

Definitions

Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.

Equivalents

Examples

“It was, however, in the Puritan movement in England, and in similar movements on the continent — especially the Bohemian Brethren — that chiliasm asserted its greatest vitality as an historical force⟳.”

“One of them, bureaucratic conservatism, represented the routinized sphere of administration, whereas the other, chiliasm, gave rise⟳ to the utopian consciousness and modern politics.”

“It is a known fact that Bolshevism has unmistakable characteristics of apocalyptic chiliasm, albeit misinterpreted in a physical, earthly way.”

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