chiliasm

What relation will this venerable body in future sustain to Chiliasm?

Historically Christian premillennialism has also been referred as "chiliasm" or "millenarianism".

Christian chiliasm had now infected the Ahmadiyah, and his reappearance was imminent according to some of the faithful.

Eusebius' interpretation might derive from his opposition to Chiliasm and the Book of Revelation.

Radicalism of their social experiments was further heightened by Chiliasm and ardent expectation of Theocracy.

Early church and premillennialism (chiliasm)

The Lutherans formally rejected chiliasm in The Augsburg Confession.

The first known opponent of Christian chiliasm was Marcion, in the 2nd century, who most Christians feel was an early heretic.

Augustine originally believed that Christ would establish a literal 1,000-year kingdom prior to the general resurrection (premillennialism or chiliasm) but rejected the system as carnal.

John Calvin wrote in Institutes that chiliasm is a "fiction" that is "too childish either to need or to be worth a refutation."

Chiliasm seemed to have found an entrance into the high councils of Europe, and the baroness von Krüdener had become a political force to be reckoned with.

He is one of the earliest church fathers to give any indication against Chiliasm, though he still respects the gathering of the church to Judea.

These views may have led him to adopt Montanism with its ascetic rigor and its belief in chiliasm and the continuance of the prophetic gifts.

Emerson was reflecting a rationalist skepticism, flourishing for only the last 200 years, that relegated apocalypticism (alias millenarianism, chiliasm, end-of-the-worldism) to the lunatic fringe.

This chiliasm [millennialism] entailed a futuristic interpretation of Daniel's seventieth week, the abomination of desolation, and the personal Antichrist.

Incipient distortions due to the admixture of current traditions, which figure in the extreme forms of chiliasm, caused a reaction against the earlier interpretations of Bible prophecies.

His literary activity was chiefly polemical, against Roman Catholics, Socinians, Arminians, Amyraldism as represented by Dallaeus, Chiliasm and other views.

As Bengel did not hesitate to manipulate historical calendars in his chiliasm attempts to predict the end of the world, Zinzendorf rejected this as superstitious "interpretation of signs."

His idealizing tendency to consider the spiritual alone as real, fundamental to his entire system, led him to combat the "rude" or "crude" Chiliasm (see Christian eschatology) of a sensual beyond.

This millennialism (or chiliasm) is a revival of a strong tradition in the Early Church that was dismissed by Augustine of Hippo and the Roman Catholic Church after him.

With that doctrinal change, the focus of the movement's chiliasm changed from awaiting its collective escape from earth to waiting for the impending destruction of the present world order in the Battle of Armageddon.

Historic premillennialism maintains chiliasm because of its view that the church will be caught up to meet Christ in the air and then escort him to the earth in order to share in his literal thousand year rule.

The Acholi rebel Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA) failed to dislodge the NRA occupation of Acholiland, leading to the desperate chiliasm of the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM).

Edward Thompson has placed the fervent nature of popular religious outbursts in the excited years of the French Revolutionary wars into a pattern of oscillation with the peaks of popular radicalism, serving as the "chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless".

For example, it is inferred that Polycarp was premillenarian because Irenaeus, his pupil, was so, and that Pothinus was premillenarian from the chiliasm of the churches of Vienne and Lyons over which he presided, and from his association with Irenaeus.