premillennialism

English

Etymology

From premillennial +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹiːmɪˈlɛnɪəlɪz(ə)m/

Noun

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.

Related terms

• amillennialism
• postmillennialism
• premillennialist

Translations

concept in Christian eschatology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 千禧年前論／千禧年前论 (qiānxǐniánqiánlùn)

• Finnish: premillennialismi