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chiliasm: see millennium millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on Rev. 20, has recurred in Christianity since the earliest times. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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During its rapid growth among German immigrants the Iowa Synod was repeatedly challenged on such issues as chiliasm (the millennium), the anti-Christ, and predestination by the Missouri Synod. Finally, while Hashimoto distances himself from Marx's chiliasm, he devotes a final chapter to his own prescriptions for the problems of socio-economic inequality, based largely on the ideas of the economist Amartya Sen. In addition, all of the authors avoid, not surprisingly, any hint of chiliasm tainting their tex t. |
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