preterist
- noun
- /ˈprɛtərɪst/
- Specialized
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preterista
- And read the Bible itself instead of wasting time on "The Amazing Preterist Bible-Guide for People Who Do Not Like Neither The Bible, What It Says, nor Anything About It at All."
Examples
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The teachings of preterists often emphasize the significance of historical context in interpreting biblical prophecy.
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So the preterist calculation, which attributes 666 to Nero, however, is nothing more than a rather desperate attempt to find some likely candidate for the Antichrist other than the Papacy.
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The first systematic preterist exposition was written by the Jesuit Luis de Alcasar during the Counter Reformation and was 900 pages long.
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According to preterists, many events described in the Book of Revelation have already occurred in history.
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A preterist believes that the prophecies concerning the end times were fulfilled during the first century AD.
How Future-Oriented
Surface Forms
Morphology
preterist = preter (semi-transparent) = preter + ist
The meaning 'person who holds the doctrine relating to the past' is somewhat guessable from the parts, but the specific theological sense is specialized.
Etymology
The word preterist comes from the Latin root preter-, the same root in preterite, and it means 'past'. So a preterist is someone who believes the prophecies in the Book of Revelation already happened in the past, often in the first century.