What is "millenarian"

Usage examples of "millenarian".

Some millenarian language achieves a kind of pornography of hatred in its description of the fate of the damned, especially those from nations hostile to the United States.

Both millenarian belief itself and the tendency of its American exponents to link it to hard-line U.

As Paul Boyer points out in his magisterial book on this subject, the strength of millenarian feelings among a minority of Americans means that they have also had an effect on wider culture, feeding into Hollywood films such as the Omen series, science fiction novels and pop music.

American traditions of defeat and their link to paranoia and aggression, we must note the strong element of class resentment in the whole millenarian tradition.

Cohn and others failed to notice that millenarian groups embodying the same tradition were still alive in the America of their own day.

The Pentecostalist faith, closely linked to millenarian belief, includes in its number John Ashcroft and a row of senior military officers.

The rejection of the Enlightenment tradition is especially true of the millenarian Christians in the United States, who believe that the restoration of Israeli rule over the entire biblical Kingdom of David is an essential precondition of the Apocalypse.

Christian version, the millenarian formulation takes two forms: pre- and postmillenarianism.

Yet millenarian expectation has increased steadily in modern times, concurrent with the bewildering expansion of human affairs.

In their naive form, millenarian movements may appear as isolated rustlings among oppressed or displaced people, the offscourings of society, flea-ridden and illiterate.

Here the millenarian group will be free of complicating forces, free of enemies, conspiracies, evil.

In medieval Europe certain themes began to develop around the millenarian experience.

Another early millenarian theme concerns the relationship between a spiritually elevated sense of mission and a harrowing earthbound reality.

There is another kind of millenarian summons, a militant call that tends to place the faithful in barricaded buildings, often in remote mountain country, with a stock of ready weapons.

Before the Aryan groups came to prominence, there was a spree of cult violence not widely recognized as millenarian but in fact showing so many signs of the medieval form as to seem a knife-happy parody.