From Greek chilia, a thousand. Defender of millennialism or chyliasm, a belief originated in the book of Revelation, that Christ will reign in the world for a thousand years before the end. From the beginning of Christianity it was thought that this parusia would be imminent. Many sects especially within the reformist orientation continue to announce it and some walking preachers now too. Even Kant himself, educated in Pietism, admitted this 18th-century belief in "Ideas for a Universal History in Cosmopolitan Key".
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