Chiliastic [adjective]
Definition of Chiliastic:
having 1000 of something
Opposite/Antonyms of Chiliastic:
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Sentence/Example of Chiliastic:
A symptom of the same despair is the rise of chiliastic aspirations, and the belief in the approaching end of the world.
In the West the Chiliastic hopes were little or not at all affected by the Montanist struggle.
Nor does this nation appear any further even in the chiliastic train of thought.
The Apologists were silent about chiliastic hopes, Justin even denied them in Apol.
With the chiliastic view of history this newly acquired theory has nothing in common.
However the fact that so abhorrent a heretic held Chiliastic views did not help those views in the judgment of later Christians.
The Chiliastic writers are perhaps more inclined to view Montanism leniently.
The discussion in which he vanquishes the Chiliastic concept is a model of contraversial method.
A more direct reason was that he had an idea of his own as to how the Chiliastic Scriptural passage should be interpreted.
Some of them, at least in the earlier stages of the movement, were influenced more by Chiliastic concepts than by monastic ones.