chiliast's Usage Examples:

That a philosopher like Justin, with a bias towards an Hellenic construction of the Christian religion, should nevertheless have accepted its chiliastic elements is the strongest proof that these enthusiastic expectations were inseparably bound up with the Christian faith down to the middle of the and century.

After the Montanistic controversy chiliastic views were more and more discredited in the Greek Church; they were, in fact, stigmatized as "Jewish" and consequently "heretical.

And another proof is found in the fact that even a speculative Jewish Christian like Cerinthus not only did not renounce the chiliastic hope, but pictured the future kingdom of Christ as a kingdom of sensual pleasures, of eating and drinking and marriage festivities (Euseb.

The book was first taken in a severely literal sense, and particularly in its chiliastic doctrine.

160-220) one of the principal issues involved was the continuance of the chiliastic expectations in the churches.

Only we must not form our ideas of the great apocalyptic and chiliastic movement of the first decades of the 16th century from the rabble in Munster.

Synonyms:

millenarist, millenarian, optimist,

Antonyms:

pessimist, sceptic, defeatist, negativist,