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词汇 postmillennialism
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Definition of postmillennialism in English:

postmillennialism

nounpəʊs(t)mɪˈlɛnɪəlɪz(ə)mˌpōstməˈlenēəlizəm
mass noun
  • (among fundamentalist Christians) the doctrine that the Second Coming of Christ will be the culmination of the prophesied millennium of blessedness.

    (基督教原教旨主义者信奉的)千禧年后论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following (postmillennialism) the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints.
    • The four most popular views are dispensational premillennialism, historical premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
    • Conditional postmillennialism also offers believers a safety net, for it constitutes a fail - proof prophecy, pre-empting any potential for cognitive dissonance or loss of faith.
    • There is a millennium, after which Christ will come again (postmillennialism).
    • Neither amillennialism nor postmillennialism is inclined to search for God's supernatural intervention as an agent in eschatological events.

Derivatives

  • postmillennialist

  • noun
    • Unlike postmillennialists, who anticipated a gradual progress towards the millennium through Christian, human agencies, premillennialists looked for a sudden change through divine, cataclysmic action.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Pietistic postmillennialists deny that the postmillennial advance of the kingdom involves the total transformation of culture through the application of biblical law.
      • In the Antebellum Era, most Evangelical Protestants were optimistic postmillennialists.
      • Amillennialists are not likely as optimistic as postmillennialists nor as pessimistic as premillennialists.
      • Schaeffer and other premillennialists picked up themes of dominionism from the postmillennialist Rushdoony, and adapted them to premillennial theology.

Definition of postmillennialism in US English:

postmillennialism

nounˌpōstməˈlenēəlizəm
  • (among some Christian Protestants) the doctrine that the Second Coming of Christ will be the culmination of the prophesied millennium of blessedness.

    (基督教原教旨主义者信奉的)千禧年后论

    Compare with premillennialism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is a millennium, after which Christ will come again (postmillennialism).
    • Neither amillennialism nor postmillennialism is inclined to search for God's supernatural intervention as an agent in eschatological events.
    • Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following (postmillennialism) the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints.
    • Conditional postmillennialism also offers believers a safety net, for it constitutes a fail - proof prophecy, pre-empting any potential for cognitive dissonance or loss of faith.
    • The four most popular views are dispensational premillennialism, historical premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
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