premillennialism

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

From premillennial +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹiːmɪˈlɛnɪəlɪz(ə)m/

Noun

[edit]

premillennialism (uncountable)

  1. A concept in Christian eschatology that the Second Coming of Christ will happen before the millennium.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 912:
      Premillennialism stressed division and separation within society, to gather in the elect, and its frostiness to Enlightenment projects of social reform contributed to that peculiar process by which ‘liberal’ has become a word of abuse in the United States, in sharp contrast to its esteem in European society.
[edit]

Translations

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=premillennialism&oldid=79334139"