chiliastic
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- adjective
- /ˌkɪliˈæstɪk/
- Specialized
:
milenarista
- Many groups have emerged that are characterized by their chiliastic beliefs about a coming period of peace on Earth.
Examples
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During the conference on religious beliefs, several speakers shared their chiliastic views about the future of humanity.
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What my comparative religion professor used to call "chiliastic."
Fiction book (1993) -
Try making chiliastic threats against the president of the US, and you'll get a nice visit from the Secret Service.
Blog text (19) -
The AGW meme awakens chiliastic emotional responses in a lot of Gaianists.
Blog text (9) -
Next, the Gaianists: a term I made up for people in whom "Save the Earth!" has psychologically substituted for traditional religion (in more or less chiliastic forms).
Blog text (9) -
"Encouraged by the success of these trial balloons, during the next few months Stevens went to the introductory lectures of an Indian guru, a self-maximization program, and a New Age chiliastic organization, and enrolled in classes at all three.
Fiction book (1991) -
The church relinquished the Book of Revelation's idea of a "first resurrection" of the saints into a chiliastic reign of Christ for 1,000 years, a loss that strengthened the belief in heavenly life after death that appeared in the tradition as early as Paul's letters.
Academic text (2008) -
Although "chiliastic" dreams were excommunicated from liberalism by Bell in The End of Ideology and Lipset in Political Man, adherents to the vital center still craved "leadership" by someone who embodied a social myth.
Academic text (1997) -
The preacher inspired his congregation with chiliastic visions of a world transformed by love and harmony.
Synonyms
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About belief in a coming thousand-year time of peace and happiness
About the belief that Christ will return before a thousand years of peace
Surface Forms
Morphology
chiliastic = chiliast (opaque) = chiliast + ic
The term 'chiliast' is not a common English word and requires specific theological knowledge to understand its meaning.
Etymology
Chiliastic comes from the Greek root chili- meaning 'thousand', the same idea you see in millennium. It describes a belief in a coming 'thousand-year' era of peace, so the original 'thousand' meaning explains the modern sense of hope for a long peaceful age.