Noun:

கிறித்து உலகுக்குத் திரும்ப வந்து ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகள் ஆள்வார் என்னும் கோட்பாடு,

chiliasm's Usage Examples:

About the year 260 an Egyptian bishop, Nepos, in a treatise called 'XEyxos 6,XX yoptarCnv, endeavoured to overthrow the Origenistic theology and vindicate chiliasm by exegetical methods.

In the course of the 4th century it was removed from the Greek canon, and thus the troublesome foundation on which chiliasm might have continued to build was got rid of.

Now for the moralists chiliasm had a special significance as the one distinguishing feature of the gospel, and the only thing that gave a specifically Christian character to their system.

During this controversy Dionysius became convinced that the victory of mystical theology over "Jewish" chiliasm would never be secure so long as the book of Revelation passed for an apostolic writing and kept its place among the homologoumena of the canon.

But mysticism and political servility between them gave the deathblow to chiliasm in the Greek Church.

The attempts of Methodius of Tyre at the beginning of the 4th century and Apollinarius of Laodicea about 360 to defend chiliasm and assail the theology of Origen had no result.

But, of course, the new chiliasm was not in every respect identical with the old.

80) speaks of chiliasm as a necessary part of complete orthodoxy, although he knows Christians who do not accept it.

For many centuries the Greek Church kept Revelation out of its canon, and consequently chiliasm remained in its grave.

The apostolic epistles are equally free from any trace of chiliasm (neither r Cor.

Synonyms:

millenniumism, millenarism, theological doctrine, millenarianism,

Antonyms:

Athanasianism, Arianism,