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- motivation for Crusades
- In Crusades: The effects of religion
…years 1000 and 1033 (the millennium of the birth and Passion of Jesus, respectively), and others have emphasized the continuance of the idea throughout the 11th century and beyond. Moreover, in certain late 11th-century portrayals of the end of all things, the “last emperor,” now popularly identified with the “king…
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- In Crusades: The effects of religion
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- Christian eschatology
- In Christianity: Expectations of the kingdom of God in early Christianity
…concept of the 1,000-year (millennial) kingdom. The dragon (Satan) is to be chained up and thrown into the abyss, where he will remain for 1,000 years. In John’s vision, Christians, the first resurrected, “came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4). Only later does the…
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- In Christianity: Expectations of the kingdom of God in early Christianity
- Mormonism
- In Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Doctrines
After the millennium, the earth will become a celestial sphere and the inheritance of the righteous. Others will be assigned to lesser kingdoms named terrestrial and “telestial.”
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- In Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Doctrines
- Protestantism
- In Protestantism: The age of Cromwell (1649–60)
…near Kingston—to bring forth God’s millennial kingdom, which they understood to be an unstructured community of love with a communal economy. In the same year, the Fifth Monarchy Men (an extreme Puritan millennialist sect), presented their message of no compromise with the old political structure and advocated a new one,…
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- In Protestantism: The age of Cromwell (1649–60)