Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in a millennial reign of Christ on earth; a chiliast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
believer inmillennialism .
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Examples
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I take his point, but I do want to insist that this new politics of which we Obama-fans are talking is not some kind of millennialist, utopian fantasy.
Poll: Two Thirds Say Hillary Should Stay In Even If She Loses One Big State 2009
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Add this to the previously exposed MIAC and DHS reports, and the Army major's report blaming "millennialist" Christians for much of the ills of the world, and a disturbing trend is quickly developing: so-called right-wing ANYTHING is being targeted and demonized as a "public menace."
The Canadian Sentinel Canadian Sentinel 2010
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Add this to the previously exposed MIAC and DHS reports, and the Army major's report blaming "millennialist" Christians for much of the ills of the world, and a disturbing trend is quickly developing: so-called right-wing ANYTHING is being targeted and demonized as a "public menace."
The Canadian Sentinel Canadian Sentinel 2010
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Catholics, mainline Protestants and smaller Christian groups like the Orthodox and (correct me if I’m wrong) the LDS are a-millennialist, meaning that their theology doesn’t treat with this one way or the other.
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Most evangelical churches, many Pentacostals, and also the Baptists, are pre-millennialist (hence that stuff about the Rapture).
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Should the Mayor of London listen to some Irish voices he would be convinced that Ireland has gone far down the millennialist path and that the entire population was in imminent danger of taking a lemming like plunge off the cliffs of Moher.
Irish Blogs 2009
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Boris Johnson sees such danger in England, "I'm not saying that I can see the green shoots of recovery but there is a risk of us all starting to sound like a millennialist suicide cult."
Irish Blogs 2009
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Most evangelical churches, many Pentacostals, and also the Baptists, are pre-millennialist (hence that stuff about the Rapture).
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Marshall Herff Applewhite -- known as "Do" to his true believers -- is not the first millennialist seer, and he almost certainly won't be the last.
Web Of Death 2008
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The attention that he called to the prophetic portions of the Bible led some Lutheran scholars to adopt a millennialist interpretation.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America! 2008
hernesheir commented on the word millennialist
chiliast
December 8, 2010