chiliast

How To Use chiliast In A Sentence

• In this ‘thought universe’ people are as freed of the constraints of the mortal flesh as they are in more traditional chiliastic visions.
• It is worth noting that, as befits a chiliast, Ghose never denies action. Kafila
• As for its successor, the ultramontane Sunni Hamas, and its even more chiliastic Shia half-ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, they do not want any accommodation or compromise, and they do not pretend to. Sesquipedalian Blatherskite
• Anyone who has read Neiwert's Eliminationists cannot help but be struck by the similarities between the teachings of the far Right, and the equally violent, chiliastic teachings of violent Islamist jihad. Islamism and Rightism: A Match Made in Heaven
• With an oddness that is, on reflection, unsurprising, it is in this newly decentred Dublin, where he thought he would be at home, that he recovers something of his earlier exilic and chiliastic vision.
• So with DARE’s classicist, George Goebel, the great lexicographer turned from Latin to Greek: deutero means “second” and chiliast refers to the biblical “kingdom of a thousand years.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
• Weber consistently, even aggressively, shuns articulating a typology of the apocalyptic, chiliastic, and millenarian beliefs that span Western history.
• The early Montanists, it turns out, were not chiliasts and were never criticized for being so.
• Outer and inner turmoil cross over the centuries in chiastic form; the new millennium, foreseen in 1799 and accosted in 1999, holds out scant chiliastic promise.
• Priam his father has failed to move him with his chiliastic visions of his own terrible end, so Hecuba takes up the thread.