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chiliasm
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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.
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Weber has read one great slate of unhappiness, history as written by sects and prophets, millenarians, chiliasts, and televangelists.
Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the ... by Amato, Joseph / Journal of Social History
Unquestionably, the chiliast and Paracelsian Tobias Hess from Nuremberg (1568-1614), who probably befriended Andreae in 1608, made a decisive contribution in this regard.
Johann Valentin Andreae's utopian brotherhoods by Dickson, Donald R. / Renaissance Quarterly
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