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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. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Puritan and Princeton postmillennialism gave way to premillennialism, particularly that associated with dispensationalism, which predominates among fundamentalists to this day, as is seen in the extraordinary sales of the LaHaye LEFT BEHIND series. Dispensational premillennialism gained much influence in the late nineteenth century, however, and it has appealed to Fundamentalists and other conservatives pessimistic about twentieth-century society. Initially, these early advocates of futurist premillennialism were dismissed as lunatics or perhaps worse, as supporters of the anti-monarchy movement in England. |
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