Chiliasm is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 246 anagrams from letters in chiliasm (achiilms).
1600-10; Greek chīliasmós, equivalent to chī́li(oi) 1000 + -asmos, variant of -ismos -ism before stems ending in -i-
chiliasm prevailed there in unimpaired strength as late as the 4th century.
Because of certain theological beliefs aside from chiliasm, the Montanists aroused the antagonism of the Church authorities.
But here again chiliasm had the misfortune to get into bad company.
In its place arose a belief which developed into chiliasm or Millenarianism.
As in the case of Cerinthus, their heresy had nothing necessarily to do with chiliasm.
As we shall try to show later, the declension of chiliasm can be only very imperfectly explained by official antagonism.
So far as these persons were Chiliasts, chiliasm would suffer in repute.
Of their actual position on chiliasm we know practically nothing except by inference.
Disgust with this literal interpretation of the scripture was thus one of the reasons which drew Augustine away from chiliasm.
His two poems present rather different versions of chiliasm.