millenarianism
IPA: mˈɪɫɪnˈɛriʌnɪzʌm
noun
- A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity.
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Examples of "millenarianism" in Sentences
- Just another manifestation of the financial millenarianism now sweeping the land?
- You also obviously haven't read my post on millenarianism, or my lectures on apocalypticsm.
- An unbelievable majority of contemporary journalists and social scientists are immersed in Marxist millenarianism.
- Another aspect of The Last Man's ambivalence towards millenarianism is seen in two episodes involving religious movements.
- Or alternatively, if apocalyptic millenarianism is something you just can't live without, that we are all about to freeze to death in a new ice age!
- Pope John Paul's papacy offered a third way between the patch-worn ideological struggle between communist millenarianism and exploitative capitalism.
- The way in which Iran strikes deals with infidels on a daily basis, practicality does seem to have trumped their millenarianism and pining for the return of the "Hidden Imam."
- In this context, Ward makes some rather striking affirmations about "millenarianism" and considers that this understanding of the Book of Revelation is harder to reconcile with scientific cosmology than the young-earth creationist understanding of Genesis is.
- Alex Steffen discusses how the idea of millenarianism has influenced our collective conception of the future and argues that "believing in a millennial future, or even frequently telling stories of such futures, blinds us both to what history teaches us about collapses and to what we know about our present moment.
- Among evangelical Protestants, the one in four who cleave most fervently to fundamentalist Protestant theology biblical inerrancy, millenarianism, justification by faith, creationism, and “one true faith” are deeply skeptical about a greater role for women in the church.25 Of these most fundamentalist evangelicals, 52 percent object to women in the clergy, compared to only 27 percent of other evangelicals, a figure only slightly above the national average of 23 percent.
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