postmillennialism
/pəʊs(t)mɪˈlɛnɪəlɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
(Among fundamentalist Christians) the doctrine that the Second Coming of Christ will be the culmination of the prophesied millennium of blessedness.Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following (postmillennialism) the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints....
- There is a millennium, after which Christ will come again (postmillennialism).
- The four most popular views are dispensational premillennialism, historical premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
Derivatives
postmillennialist
- In the Antebellum Era, most Evangelical Protestants were optimistic postmillennialists.
- Pietistic postmillennialists deny that the postmillennial advance of the kingdom involves the total transformation of culture through the application of biblical law.
- Schaeffer and other premillennialists picked up themes of dominionism from the postmillennialist Rushdoony, and adapted them to premillennial theology.
- on the outside looking in
- on the part of (or on my, their, etc., part)
- on the phone
- on the pig's back
- on the plus side
- on the port (or starboard) tack
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the quiet
- on the rack
- on the rails
- on the rebound
- on the right (or wrong) track
- on the right side of
- on the rise
- on the road
- on the rocks
- on the rope
- on the ropes
- on the run
- on the same page
- on the scent
- on the score of
- on the scrounge
- on the sea