Chiliasm Definition

kĭlē-ăzəm
noun

Belief in the coming of the millennium.

Webster's New World
The doctrine stating that Jesus will reign on earth for 1,000 years.
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Other Word Forms of Chiliasm

Noun

Singular:
chiliasm
Plural:
chiliasms

Origin of Chiliasm

  • New Latin chīliasmus from Late Latin chīlias chiliad chiliad

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek χιλιασμός (khiliasmos), from χίλιοι (chilioi, “thousand”).

    From Wiktionary

Chiliasm Sentence Examples

  • The old Christian eschatology is set aside; no one has dealt such deadly blows to Chiliasm and Christian apocalypticism as Origen.

  • But, of course, the new chiliasm was not in every respect identical with the old.

  • About the year 260 an Egyptian bishop, Nepos, in a treatise called 'XEyxos 6,XX yoptarCnv, endeavoured to overthrow the Origenistic theology and vindicate chiliasm by exegetical methods.

  • During this controversy Dionysius became convinced that the victory of mystical theology over "Jewish" chiliasm would never be secure so long as the book of Revelation passed for an apostolic writing and kept its place among the homologoumena of the canon.

  • In the course of the 4th century it was removed from the Greek canon, and thus the troublesome foundation on which chiliasm might have continued to build was got rid of.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHI

Words Ending With

MSMASM

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