millenarism

IPA: mʌɫˈɛnɝɪzʌm

Examples of "millenarism" in Sentences

*** (Translator's note: millenarism, chiliasm, doctrine of belief in the millenium)
But as the millenarism of the primitive Church gradually died out during the second century, the essential principles involved in it lost none of their hold on men's minds.
The Tunisian revolt helps clarify a reality about Arab life: The terrorism we've seen over the past few years, with its utopian millenarism, doesn't stem from the real societies of the
Because of this, peasant movements would often express themselves in a form of religious millenarism c.f. the Peasant War in Germany or the Diggers and Levellers in 17th century England which would act as a substitute for the political and economic homogeneity that they so desperately lacked.
However, near the south transept there is a humble stone cross, as simple as it is strange, hiding amidst the greenery of the square ... whatever its age [late 17th/early 18th Cent], the HEndaye cross shows by the decoration of its pedestal that it is the strangest monument of primitive millenarism, the rarest symbolical translation of chiliasm***, which I have ever met.