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Premillennialism vs Postmillennium - What's the difference?

premillennialism | postmillennium |

As a noun premillennialism

is a concept in christian eschatology that the second coming will happen before the millennium.

As an adjective postmillennium is

after the turn of the millennium.

premillennialism

English

(wikipedia premillennialism)

Noun

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  • A concept in Christian eschatology that the second coming will happen before the millennium.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 912:
    • Premillennialism stressed division and separation within society, to gather in the elect, and its frostiness to Enlightenment projects of social reform contributed to that peculiar process by which ‘liberal’ has become a word of abuse in the United States, in sharp contrast to its esteem in European society.

    Related terms

    * amillennialism * postmillennialism * premillennialist

    postmillennium

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • After the turn of the millennium.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 26, author=Andy Newman, title=And Staten Island, Too, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Then it was on to the Dolls; a solo career as blue-eyed soul shouter; Buster Poindexter; and his postmillennium backwoods-music project, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, named for the compiler of the Anthology of American Folk Music. }}