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'''Chiliasm''' is the doctrine based on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%2020:4-6&version=NABRE Revelation 20:4-6] that [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] will reign on earth a thousand years.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary'' including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, copyright 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606. page 237a</ref> The word chiliasm is from Greek ''chiliasmos'', from ''chilias'', from ''chilioi'' thousand. A ''chiliad'' is literally ''a thousand'', also a period of a thousand years.
'''Chiliasm''' is the doctrine based on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%2020:4-6&version=NABRE Revelation 20:4-6] that [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] will reign on earth a thousand years.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary'' including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, copyright 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606. page 237a</ref> The word chiliasm is from Greek ''chiliasmos'', from ''chilias'', from ''chilioi'' thousand. A ''chiliad'' is literally ''a thousand'', also a period of a thousand years.
Chiliasm has been condemned as a [[heresy]] in the East and West since A.D. 381. It is defended as a true doctrine of Christianity by several Christian denominations and literalist schools of biblical interpretation since the beginning of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]. See [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)#12 schools of interpretation|12 schools of interpretation]]
Chiliasm has been condemned as a [[heresy]] in the East and West since A.D. 381. It is defended as a true doctrine of Christianity by several Christian denominations and literalist schools of biblical interpretation since the beginning of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]. See [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)#12 schools of interpretation|12 schools of interpretation]] and [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)#Millennium|Millennium]]
== See also ==
== See also ==