chiliasm

Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.

It was, however, in the Puritan movement in England, and in similar movements on the continent — especially the Bohemian Brethren — that chiliasm asserted its greatest vitality as an historical force.

One of them, bureaucratic conservatism, represented the routinized sphere of administration, whereas the other, chiliasm, gave rise to the utopian consciousness and modern politics.

Alternative form of chiliasm.