postmillennialism
Golden-age-first theology
Postmillennialism is a Christian eschatological view holding that Christ will return after a golden age of Christian influence on earth—the millennium—rather than before it.
Unlike premillennialism, which expects Christ to establish the kingdom personally, postmillennialism sees human progress and gospel expansion gradually bringing about this era: Postmillennialism was more popular before the World Wars dimmed optimism about human progress.
State of great distress
- resurrectionRevival from death
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
Movement toward improvement
- revivalReturn after decline
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- advancementForward movement or promotion
flourishing · prosperity · victory · hope · expansion · influence · leaven
Improved after abandoning wrongdoing
- puritanExcessively morally strict person
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- dominionAuthority to rule
- reconstructionismEducation-driven societal reform
Assigned important tasks
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- educationSystematic development of mind
- institution-buildingCreating enduring governmental or social structures
tribulation
State of great distress
- resurrectionRevival from death
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
progress
Movement toward improvement
- revivalReturn after decline
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
advancement · flourishing · prosperity · victory · hope · expansion · influence · leaven
reformed
Improved after abandoning wrongdoing
reconstructionism · confessional · sovereignty · providence · election
missions
Assigned important tasks
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- educationSystematic development of mind
institution-building · worldview · temperance · charity · stewardship
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- Doctrinespredestination, original sin, justification, sanctification, incarnation
- Millenarianismmillenarianism, end times, second coming, rapture, apocalypse
- Millennialismapocalypticism, eschatology, end times, Millerites, Adventists
- Victorian TheologyOxford Movement, Tractarianism, Newman, biblical criticism, evangelicalism
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation