OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31191

chiliasm

/ˈkɪ.lɪæ.z(ə)m/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
milenarismo • quiliasmo
Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.
It was, however, in the Puritan movement in England, and in similar movements on the continent — especially the Bohemian Brethren — that chiliasm asserted its greatest vitality as…
One of them, bureaucratic conservatism, represented the routinized sphere of administration, whereas the other, chiliasm, gave rise to the utopian consciousness and modern politics…
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