Chiliastic

Chiliastic views disappeared all the more rapidly, because, as was remarked above, in spite of their wide diffusion even among sincere Christians, and in spite of their defence by prominent Fathers of the early Church, millenarianism was never held in the universal Church as an article of faith based on Apostolic traditions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Chiliastic error, repudiated the Apocalypse altogether, and took it chapter by chapter to ridicule it, attributing the authorship of it to Cerinthus (as we know the Roman Gaius did some years earlier).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

An Egyptian bishop, Nepos, taught the Chiliastic error that there would be a reign of Christ upon earth for a thousand years, a period of corporal delights; he founded this doctrine upon the Apocalypse in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

On the Chiliastic question see Gry, Le Millénarisme (Paris, 1904), 101.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The only account we have of this so-called “Chiliastic Controversy” is found in connection with the history of the schism of Nepos in Egypt given by

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Chiliastic fancies dominate not merely bishops like Papias, whose critical powers are not very great, but even theologians like Justin, and give rise subsequently to a great movement in the Church through Montanus and his prophetesses.

The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904

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

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

He may have borrowed the figure from the scene around him; or, perhaps, employed it from a tendency to Chiliastic ideas of heaven.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

The first part of the promise (referring to this life) was enough to show even those whose minds were filled with carnal and Chiliastic expectations, that the whole was to be taken, not literally, but spiritually; Christians were to receive back all that they had sacrificed, increased and glorified, in the communion of the higher life on earth.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

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

History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868