chiliastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪliəst/

名詞

chiliast (複数形 chiliasts)

1. (Christianity, typically derogatory) Synonym of millenarian: a person who believes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will involve his physical rule on Earth for 1000 years. [1611]
   • 1611, William Sclater, A Key to the Key of Scripture..., p. 324:

     ... Agreed on all sides, except the Chiliasts...

   • 1647, Anon., A Short History of the Anabaptists, p. 52:

     All Anabaptists were and are still Chiliasts, expounding literally that Kingdome of a thousand years of Revel. xx. 6 to be a temporall Kingdome.

等位語

• chiliasm, chilianism, chiliastic, chiliastical

参照

• “chiliast, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2018.