millenarian

How To Use millenarian In A Sentence

• This is the more surprising given the many build-up signs anticipating much greater outbursts of millenarian fervor around the year 2000.
• The author does not neglect the more exotic apocalyptic and millenarian episodes.
• All apocalyptic and millenarian ideologies ultimately converge on the utopian transformation of the body through suffering.
• In other words, the revival of religious millenarianism was a pre-patterned localised response to the social rifts and cultural crisis induced by French colonialism.
• As millenarians they are prone to get seduced quite easily into an ends justifying the means approach which, allied with large doses of cognitive dissonance, lead to some remarkable statements.
• A diffuse, volatile blend of everything from anarchism to religious millenarianism, it continued to mark working-class movements up to and including Chartism.
• Similar prophecies had frequently surfaced in Italian millenarian movements during the late medieval and Renaissance periods.
• Newton's millenarian enthusiasm, based upon the deeply held notion that human history was orchestrated by God, was matched later in the century by the millennial speculations of the high priest of rational Dissent, Joseph Priestley.
• The attempt to act in accordance with a system of ideas is invariably denounced as ideological, fanatical, utopian or millenarian.
• But he discovered other groups who were far from being like the Baptists of the seventeenth century, such as the millenarian Munster radicals.