NOUN
- a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)
How To Use chiliast In A Sentence
- This brought about by a Republican President with a chiliastic world view aided by the Neocon Manicheanism. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- As a result, the Cultural Revolution proved to be something of a non-event, in comparison with the chiliastic aspirations with which it had begun.
- Ms. Delaney shares Mr. Cliff's interest in chiliastic myths but has no talent for spotting them. Faulty Navigators
- However the fact that the current Republican POTUS and a would be Republican VPOTUS do hold this chiliastic outlook on life concerns me as much as the possible election of Democratic POTUS seems to concern you and many others who post here. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Speaking of the chiliastic, when Israel made that last foolish foray into Lebanon there were postings all over the strange sites connected to this sort of stuff. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- The Book of Revelation, itself an heir to a long prophetic and chiliastic tradition, concludes with a vision of the New Jerusalem.
- Many of the aphorisms having to do with the Fall, suffering and redemption show a progressivist chiliastic or even quasi-Hegelian structure culminating in some aspect of the coincidentia oppositorum, the final freedom promised by man's release from the prison of the principle of contradiction. Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
- Another general term for such millennialists is chiliasts.
- They are closer to the chiliasts in that they believe that Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1000 years, but they are not the violent revolutionaries as the ones before.
- All brought about by a strange claim to be a "Faith Based" Administration, the Republican version of Theocracy, where the Lord gives th OK to visit "shock and awe" on the land of Iraq and POTUS holds a chiliastic view of the world. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...