postmillenarianadj.n.

1839 C. Bridges Christian Ministry (ed. 5) 522 The mind of active interest concentrates all upon..the time—whether a pre-millennarian or post-millennarian advent.

1866 C. Colegrove European Sphinx 59 A shock, and a revelation, which the prevailing post-millenarian fallacy will not long survive!

1929 Los Angeles Times 28 Sept. ii. 6/6 ‘Could Jesus Christ return today? Post-millenarians answer no: pre-millenarians say yes.’ The post-millenarian viewpoint will be discussed by Dr. William Evans in his sermon.

1993 G. Bilezikian Christianity 101 viii. 258 According to..the postmillenarian interpretation, the thousand years represent a period of peace and righteousness on earth... Then, when time comes to its end, Christ will return to inaugurate eternity.

2004 S. J. Palmer Aliens Adored iv. 92 Instead of expecting a sudden, cataclysmic supernatural intervention to bring about the end of the world (as do premillennialists), the postmillenarian Raelians anticipate gradual progress toward the realization of heaven on earth.

1862 W. L. Alexander Kitto's Cycl. Biblical Lit. (new ed.) I. 77/1 This is precisely the position of post-millennarians.

1886 N. F. Ravlin Progress. Thoughts Great Subj. v. 63 Those who think that the millennium is to precede His [sc. Christ's] coming, are called Postmillenarians.

1926 Sci. Monthly Sept. 201/1 The fundamentalist and modernist, progressive and conservative, pre- and post-millennarian..all appeal to the Bible to sustain their respective views.

1997 Skeptical Inquirer Jan. 32/2 Postmillenarians are Christians who believe that eventually Christianity will be accepted throughout the world and a 1000-year period of righteousness will be climaxed by the return of Christ.

2002 Church Times 24 May 20/4 Pre-millenarians despair of the present world order, post-millenarians work to convert it.

1879 Princeton Rev. Jan.–June 420 Pre-millenarians make the following sweeping assertions against post-millenarianism.

1998 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 104 937 The second paper by Wessinger..will be much-cited for its commonsense proposal that scholars drop certain mystical terms such as pre- and post-millenarianism and instead use her more general concepts of catastrophic and progressive millennialism.