Meaning of Millenarianism | Babel Free

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A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity.

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“It is hard to say for certain just why this brief but notable shift from passive to active millenarianism should have occurred during the Interregnum.”

“When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.”

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