millenarianism means A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
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MILLENARIANISM — [Noun] A belief, particularly within Christian eschatology, in a literal thousand-year reign of peace and justice inaugurated by the catastrophic return of Christ. From the English word millenarian (from Latin millenarius, "containing a thousand", from mille, "thousand") + the suffix -ism, denoting a system or doctrine. Unlike millennialism, which can secularize the hope into a vague golden age, or utopianism, which trusts in human design to build its perfect city, millenarianism is a theology of divine rupture—a cosmology where the world must be shattered to be perfected. It is the feverish arithmetic in the margins of a worn Bible, the stockpiled tins in a cellar awaiting tribulation, and the quiet stitching of a white robe for a wedding feast that will inaugurate the kingdom—the human spirit, armed with a number, transmuting dread into a calendar.
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- A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity.“It is hard to say for certain just why this brief but notable shift from passive to active millenarianism should have occurred during the Interregnum.”