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| | '''Chiliasm''' is the doctrine based on 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 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. |
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| | + | 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 |
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| | + | == External links == |
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| | + | === Rejection of Chiliasm in the East and West since A.D. 381 === |
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| | + | [http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/end/chiliasm.shtml The Inconsistency of Chiliasm] (Orthodox). The Second Ecumenical Council (381) and the Condemnation of Apollinarius (orthodoxphotos.com) |
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| | + | [http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/86520.htm The Inconsistency of Chiliasm, Bishop Alexander (Mileant)] - Russian Orthodox (pravoslavie.ru) |
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| | + | [http://www.roca.org/OA/15/15h.htm Orthodox America: 381 - The Second Ecumenical Council - 1981. From the "Last Farewell" of St. Gregory the Theologian to the 150 Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (on his resignation as Patriarch)] (roca.org) |
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| | + | [http://francisgumerlock.com/wp-content/upload/2009/01/Millenialism%20and%20the%20Early%20Church%20Councils.%20Gumerlock.pdf ''Fides et Historia'' 36:2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 83-95. Millenialism and the Early Church Councils: Was Chiliasm Condemned at Constantinople?, by Francis X. Gumerlock, Saint Louis University] (francisgumerlock.com) |
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| | + | [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Millenium and Millenarianism] (newadvent.org) |
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| | + | [https://bible.org/article/phantom-heresy-did-council-ephesus-431-condemn-chiliasm The Phantom Heresy: Did the Council of Ephesus (431) Condemn Chiliasm?], Michael Svigel |
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| | + | [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Second Council of Constantinople (553) Fifth Ecumenical Council] (newadvent.org) |
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| | + | [http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Georg-Schieferdecker/192170660 Georg Albert Schieferdecker] 19th century (condemnation) Lutheran (zoominfo.com) |
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| | + | [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40929/40929-h/40929-h.htm The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Transformation of Early Christianity From an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement. Lyford Patterson Edwards, D.D., The University of Chicago. 1919] (gutenberg.org) - Apollinarianism |
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| | + | [http://www.the-highway.com/chiliasm_Masselink.html "The History of Chiliasm", William Masselink] (the-highway.com) |
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| | + | [http://mikeblume.com/chiliasm.html There Is No Future Physical Millenium, Mike Blume] (mikeblume.com) |
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