单词	millenarianism
释义	millenarianism /ˌmɪlɪˈnɛːrɪəˌnɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] 1The doctrine of or belief in a future (and typically imminent) thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. It is central to the teaching of groups such as Adventists, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism.... In other words, the revival of religious millenarianism was a pre-patterned localised response to the social rifts and cultural crisis induced by French colonialism. A diffuse, volatile blend of everything from anarchism to religious millenarianism, it continued to mark working-class movements up to and including Chartism. 1.1Belief in a future utopian period. Derivatives millenarianist noun & adjective ... So global warming is serving a far greater purpose than just destabilizing the Earth, and we who are called apocalyptic millenarianists have much to look forward to. This book is the cornerstone of the fundamentalists, the evangelicals, and the millenarianists. Toward the end of the twentieth century there was plenty to fuel the speculations of the millenarianists.
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