postmillennialistn.adj.

1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 192 The Judicial Destruction of the Man of Sin..is acknowledged, both by Premillennialists and by Postmillennialists, to occur immediately before the commencement of the Thousand Years.

1903 D. D. Rutledge Christ, Anti-Christ & Millennium xi. 291 One Post-Millennialist misunderstood this view.

1932 A. Stewart Christianity, Communism, Adventism xi. 111 Post-millennialists..labor with abounding hope.

1992 M. E. Marty & R. S. Appleby Glory & Power ii. 47 In the nineteenth century some Protestants called themselves postmillenialists.

2005 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 20 Apr. 6 a Some postmillennialists believed they could hasten the return of Christ by working to make the world better.

1964 Amer. Q. 16 246 Those who hold a premillennialist view are going to act far differently..than those who hold a postmillennialist position.

1975 J. G. A. Pocock Machiavellian Moment x. 344 The English apocalyptic was therefore past-facing and, initially at least, tended toward the postmillennialist assertion that the thousand years of the devil's binding are over and the climactic struggle with Antichrist at hand.

1987 L. S. Gerteis Morality & Utility in Amer. Antislavery Reform iv. 82 These new societies most notably the American Temperance Union..and the American Anti-Slavery Society..combined postmillennialist perfectionist doctrines with middle-class desires to assert social control.

1994 New Yorker 18 July 37/1 For the activists of the religious right, politics is a post-millennialist battle for ultimate dominion over America.

2001 J. R. Lewis Odd Gods 140 Ongoing collective revelations continue to unveil the community's unique role in their postmillenialist vision of the last days, their relationship to Yahshua, and levels of salvation after Judgment.