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Refreshment of the Saints

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millennialism

  • Vision of the New Jerusalem
    In millennialism: Early Christian millennialism

    …as belief in the “Refreshment of the Saints” (a 45-day period of respite during which the saints who had survived the tribulations of the Endtime would enjoy peace on earth). Above all, charismatic prophets used apocalyptic calculations drawn from Revelation and The Book of Daniel to excite the faithful.…

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  • Vision of the New Jerusalem
    In millennialism: Patristic and medieval millennialism

    , the period of the Refreshment of the Saints to follow the reign of the Antichrist—during which the order of monks would bring an era of earthly peace and spiritual contemplation. Joachim was the first theologian to reject Augustine and return to a notion of a millennium to come, and…

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