eschatologism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eschatology + -ism.
Noun
[edit]eschatologism (usually uncountable, plural eschatologisms)
- The belief that the world is renewed through apocalyptic crises.
- 2011, Alexei Nesteruk, The Universe as Communion:
- Eschatologism as an attitude is fundamentally different to mechanicism because it aspires beyond space and time towards non-worldly realities which drive history and the very scientific exploration of the world.
- 2014, Ivan Boldyrev, Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism:
- Bloch's eschatologism is a political programme, to which the book on Müntzer bears testimony.