chiliastic

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Chiliastic schemers with a rationalist bias are vulgarising the issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chiliastic ideas spread abroad in proportion as men despaired of the speedy regeneration of the church through natural instrumentalities.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

The Chiliastic teaching of his work is the subject of severe comment with Eusebius, who accuses him of misinterpreting figurative sayings in the Apostolic writings and assigning to them a literal sense.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

Chiliastic ideas are also found in the epistle from Lyons in Eusebius, H. E. V. 1 sq.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil