Definitions
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- noun The doctrine that Jesus's Second Coming will follow the millennium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
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- noun Christianity An
interpretation of the Book of Revelation whereChrist 's second coming will be after the "Millennium ", aGolden Age orera ofprosperity anddominance of theChristianity .
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Examples
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But in the nineteenth century, a new theory arose called postmillennialism.
Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008
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There are differences between these two movements that embrace dominion theology and now, at least for Wagner, apparently postmillennialism but those differences is not over whether their view of dominion amounts to a decentralized, voluntary vision for governing a society of free people.
Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR Julie Ingersoll 2011
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There are differences between these two movements that embrace dominion theology and now, at least for Wagner, apparently postmillennialism but those differences is not over whether their view of dominion amounts to a decentralized, voluntary vision for governing a society of free people.
Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR Julie Ingersoll 2011
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There are differences between these two movements that embrace dominion theology and now, at least for Wagner, apparently postmillennialism but those differences is not over whether their view of dominion amounts to a decentralized, voluntary vision for governing a society of free people.
Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR Julie Ingersoll 2011
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All of these men are "black coffee" Calvinists, adhering rigorously to Sola Scriptura, Covenant Theology, TULIP, Van Tilian apologetics i.e. presuppositionalism, and postmillennialism.
Archive 2009-06-01 John M 2009
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And their postmillennialism provides the kind of optimism, not to be confused with triumphalism, that spurs them and their adherents to living this faith diligently in their daily lives, holding fast to the belief that such efforts would do more than save their souls, but would also works towards the reconstruction of a truly Christian order.
Archive 2009-06-01 John M 2009
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World War I pretty much crushed that idea, although lately postmillennialism has reemerged in a somewhat grimmer form called Christian reconstructionism.
Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008
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Around the time the first wave of postmillennialism was gaining steam, an Irish minister named John Nelson Darby came up with a new theory called dispensational premillennialism.
Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008
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There is a very strong streak of anti-postmillennialism in the writings of ID theorists.
Creationism Ruse, Michael 2007
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The simple thesis of postmillennialism is that Jesus will literally return to the earth after the Millennium begins.
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