premillennialist

Examples

• All

• Coming out of the premillennialist tradition, many evangelicals believed that society was imperfectable and that Christians should concentrate on personal salvation.

  Academic text (1991)

• Since then, premillennialist fatalism has attained a surprising popularity in American culture at large; a 1984 poll found that almost four out of ten people believe that "when the Bible predicts that the earth will be destroyed by fire, it's telling us that a nuclear war is inevitable." (n2)

  Academic text (1994)

• Lead's view of the apocalypse was premillennialist.

  Academic text (2018)

• The familiar premillennialist doctrine of the rapture of the church is largely absent from Scofield's original notes, and yet highlighted in the notes to the 1967 edition.

  Academic text (2006)

• As to what this millennium will look like, Freke adopts a premillennialist position that fits both with the stance of Jane Lead and the Philadelphians and with the quietist views he had expressed in his New Jerusalem of 1702.

  Academic text (2018)

• Many churches embrace a premillennialist outlook, believing that Christ will return before a period of peace on earth.

• The premillennialist ideology emphasizes the importance of preparing for Christ’s return and the subsequent millennium.

Synonyms

P

premillennial

vspremillennialist

• Specialized

1 9.4

About the Christian belief that Christ returns before a thousand years of peace

is about belief that Christ will return before a thousand-year period of peace

C

chiliastic

vspremillennialist

• Specialized

1 9.9

Relating to the belief that a thousand-year time of peace will soon come, often in Christian faith

focuses specifically on Christ returning before that thousand-year period

M

millenarian

vspremillennialist

1 9.9

About belief in a coming thousand-year time of peace and happiness

is narrower, focusing on Christ returning before that period rather than general prophetic belief

Surface Forms

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Etymology