NOUN
- belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations
How To Use chiliasm In A Sentence
- Maybe we can feel the chiliasm coming, but it's not here yet — we still have to play out the last minutes of the game even if the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Spin
- When Christianity became the dominant force in religion in the West and the official religion of the Roman Empire, opposition to chiliasm became emphatic.
- Build the chiliasm by living it, right here and now. Spin
- This teaching is known as chiliasm, from the Greek chiliasmos, meaning ‘a thousand years.’
- We turned our backs on that, which was good; but it seemed like the world got a little smaller when we weren't among people who were trying to build the chiliasm, however imperfectly. Spin
- In the early church, premillennialism was called chiliasm, from the Greek term meaning 1,000 used six times in Revelation 20: 2-7.
- At the end of the time when the cycle of chiliasms shall be exhausted, the complete paradise will come.
- MES's interest in the millenium, and chillinism and chiliasm. FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles
- *** (Translator's note: millenarism, chiliasm, doctrine of belief in the millenium) FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles
- However, near the south transept there is a humble stone cross, as simple as it is strange, hiding amidst the greenery of the square ... whatever its age [late 17th/early 18th Cent], the HEndaye cross shows by the decoration of its pedestal that it is the strangest monument of primitive millenarism, the rarest symbolical translation of chiliasm***, which I have ever met. FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles