Chiliasm and reformed eschatology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Abstract

One of the most discussed and intriguing problems of eschatology is the question whether there is a biblically founded reason for expecting a thousand year reign of Christ at the close of history. It is commonly known as the doctrine of chiliasm or millennialism. Chiliasm, strictly defined, is a type of Christian eschatology organized around the notion that the vision described in Revelation 20 of a thousand-year period in which Satan is bound and the saints reign will be fulfilled literally, on earth, and in the future.