Word: apocalypticism
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The believers are young and old, longtime Apocalypse buffs and recent converts. The newer ones include many members of the Jesus Movement. Bumper stickers (GUESS WHO'S COMING AGAIN!) proclaim Christ's return. Jesus rock bands throb with it. A small shelf of luridly written, fiercely dogmatic books...
Most Christians have to deal somehow with the Second Coming because tradition and Scripture seem to be so certain of it. Both the Apostles' and the Nicene creeds attest belief in a returning Christ who will judge the living and the dead. There are mentions in all four Gospels...
In modern times, much of mainstream Protestant scholarship has virtually dismissed the idea of a real Second Coming, preferring to view the apocalyptic literature as a metaphor, a prefiguring of an eventual victory of Christ's redemptive power over the forces of evil. Roman Catholicism, in whose theology the...
Hanoi may also get the message that it can expect minimal help from Moscow and Peking. Both Russia and China expressed routine outrage over the renewed bombing, but, as in May, their reaction was far short of apocalyptic. In a speech observing the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, Soviet...
Dealers continue to exhibit their pet trends as though nothing had happened, but recent art criticism has taken on a glum, apocalyptic tone: "The art currently filling the museums and galleries is of such low quality generally that no real critical intelligence could possibly feel challenged to analyze it...There...