millennialism

or millenarianism

Belief in the millennium of Christian prophecy (Revelation 20), the 1,000 years when Christ is to reign on earth, or any religious movement that foresees a coming age of peace and prosperity. There are two expressions of millennialism. Premillennialism holds that the Second Coming of Christ will occur before the millennium and will initiate the final battle between good and evil, which will be followed by the establishment of the 1,000-year kingdom on earth or in heaven. Postmillennialism maintains that Jesus will return after the creation of the millennial kingdom of peace and righteousness, which prepares the way for the Second Coming. Throughout the Christian era, periods of social change or crisis have tended to lead to a resurgence in millennialism. The legend of the last emperor and the writings of Joachim of Fiore are important examples of medieval millennialism, and, during the Reformation, Anabaptists, Bohemian Brethren, and other groups held millennial beliefs. It is now associated especially with such Protestant denominations as the Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons. In a broader sense, many non-Christian traditions, including Pure Land Buddhism and the Ghost Dance religion, are understood as millennialist.

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The topics include Jews and Protestants in the Savoyard state 1650-1750, millenarianism and tolerance, discrediting slavery from the Societe des Amis des Noirs to the Haitian Revolution, and the villain and whore as social evil in bourgeois society.

Discources of tolerance and intolerance in the European enlightenment by Reference & Research Book News

For the Shiite religious hierarchy, long accustomed to relegating the advent of the Mahdi to a distant future, Ahmadinejad's insistent millenarianism is troublesome.

Iranian attitudes show an overt shift to liberalism by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

The hermeneutics of millenarianism require that Scripture be read as a prophecy, but one whose precise meaning was veiled from the prophets of old and remains to be unlocked through correspondence to contemporary events (thus all the maps and headlines).

How is the Bible true? Let me count the ways by Johnson, Luke Timothy / Commonweal

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