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- noun Plural form of
chiliast .
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Examples
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Early in his career Augustine had held a millenarian view, but due to the exaggerations and crude materialism of many chiliasts he abandoned the teaching.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America! 2008
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Similarly, it was the “Peak Oil” theorists who warned of spiking oil prices and strains on the refinery system, only to be dismissed as amateur nerds and tinfoil-hat chiliasts — until $4-a-gallon gas and winter heating bills brought the new reality home.
The News Blues Wolcott, James 2008
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However I must say again that these chiliasts are happy in actively looking forward to the Rapture that can only occur when Armageddon is unleashed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I noticed that Boykin was promoted recently.. it would be worth looking at other recent promotions to see if other crazy christian chiliasts have gotten them.
Firedoglake » Who Will Be Joe Lieberman’s Harry Taylor? 2006
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(Institutiones, VII) proclaim the millennial realm and describe its splendour, partly drawing on the earlier chiliasts and the Sybilline prophecies, partly borrowing their colours from the "golden age" of the pagan poets; but the idea of the six thousand years for the duration of the world is ever conspicuous.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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A schism threatened; but the prudent and moderate policy of Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, preserved unity; the chiliasts abandoned their views
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Maududi, as Murawiec notes, is a throwback to the medieval European chiliasts, like Thomas Muntzer and the radical Anabaptists.
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Maududi, as Murawiec notes, is a throwback to the medieval European chiliasts, like Thomas Muntzer and the radical Anabaptists.
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Maududi, as Murawiec notes, is a throwback to the medieval European chiliasts, like Thomas Muntzer and the radical Anabaptists.
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II.xi. 2) has described in great detail the views of the chiliasts, whom he opposed as, even in his day, a retrograde party.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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