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‘Initially Luther was well received among the chiliasts, who saw him as the harbinger of a new era and defender of the ‘new age,’ the age of the Spirit and of peace.’
‘Many chiliasts believed that in the millennium all manner of physical craving would be satiated, that men would find all women beautiful, and willing to partake in carnal delights.’
‘The early Montanists, it turns out, were not chiliasts and were never criticized for being so.’
‘They are closer to the chiliasts in that they believe that Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1000 years, but they are not the violent revolutionaries as the ones before.’
‘Secular chiliasts are people who compress all of history into the moment that they are living, and strive to determine today, now, all things forever.’
‘Another general term for such millennialists is chiliasts.’
‘In the end, this is the argument that Origen made to his Jewish critics (and to Christian chiliasts): their view of what it means for the prophecies to be fulfilled is too restricted.’
‘When not live coding, Click lives with a trowel and four chiliasts in Dorset, Essex.’
‘Even the American and European chiliasts had been influenced by Machindo.’
‘Weber has read one great slate of unhappiness, history as written by sects and prophets, millenarians, chiliasts, and televangelists.’
Origin
Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek khiliastēs, from khilias ‘a thousand years’, from khilioi ‘thousand’.