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Definition of Chiliastic
1. Adjective. Relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness.
Definition of Chiliastic
1. a. Millenarian.
Definition of Chiliastic
1. Adjective. of, or believing a 1000 year period of peace and prosperity; millenarian ¹
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Definition of Chiliastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiliastic
Literary usage of Chiliastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"That Papias was not to be regarded as a man of small power simply because he held
chiliastic ideas is sufficiently refuted by the fact that Justin Martyr ..."
2. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1906)
"chiliastic AND ENTHUSIASTIC SECTS. s the hierarchy grew more and more corrupt
and op- >sive, and as the hopes of reform from within became and less, ..."
3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The Trinitarian controversy was by far the most important, while the chiliastic
discussions were of significance for Eschatology. 1. ..."
4. History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"... -chiliastic ideas, and take issue upon occasion with the church doctrines ; cf.
... chiliastic ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He began to read the Bible and all accessible writings of the enthusiasts and
pietists, and evolved an apocalyptic, chiliastic system of his own, ..."
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