premillennialism

This doctrine—that the second coming takes place before the millennium—is known as premillennialism.

Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

Since his release from prison, he has switched over to premillennialism and preaches a pretty good end-times sermon.

Daniel Krotz: Jim Bakker and the Counterfeit Hell Robbers Daniel Krotz 2010

Many Evangelicals also reject the premillennialism that is popular with Fundamentalists.

Puncturing a gas bag ... Frank Wilson 2006

Now, all that means is that if you believe in premillennialism, Christ comes back at the beginning of the Millennium and reigns and rules for a thousand years -- the Millennium.

Chip Berlet: Palin's Religious Beliefs Must Be Explored 2008

An almost impossibly rich work, it explicates a host of thorny theological, philosophical, and epistemological controversies and positions (Marsden, for instance, insightfully draws the connection between, on the one hand, the intellectual appeal of dispensational premillennialism and the opposition to Darwinism and, on the other, the peculiarly American “non-developmental” understanding of history).

Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism 2006

They carried premillennialism into the twentieth century in large measure because it comported with their own sense that they were marginal figures.

Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism 2008

However, during the medieval period there was always an undercurrent of premillennialism among individuals such as Joachim of Fiora and the Spiritual Franciscans.

The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America! 2008

The popularity of the Left Behind series suggests that premillennialism still has a hold on many evangelicals (though I suspect that much of the appeal lies in a kind of lingering curiosity rather than heartfelt conviction).

Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism 2008

However, the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century continued to hold the Augustinian view of the millennium; nevertheless they suggested changes in eschatological interpretation that led to a renewal of premillennialism in the seventeenth century.

The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America! 2008

They have, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, achieved remarkable successes politically, economically and socially over the last half century so that the siren song of premillennialism no longer has the same appeal it once did.

Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism 2008