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Also known as: chiliasm, millenarianism
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Richard Landes
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University. Author of Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History and co-editor The Apocalyptic Year 1000.
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millenarianism or chiliasm
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Charles Taze Russell

millennialism, the belief, expressed in the book of Revelation to John, the last book of the New Testament, that Christ will establish a 1,000-year reign of the saints on earth (the millennium) before the Last Judgment. More broadly defined, it is a cross-cultural concept grounded in the expectation of a time of supernatural peace and abundance on earth. Millennialism offers a version of the fundamental eschatological belief that at the end of time (the “End,” or “Endtime”) God will judge the living and the resurrected dead. This belief in ultimate divine justice provides a rationale for theodicy, the reconciliation of ...(100 of 5412 words)

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