apocalypticism
noun
apoc·a·lyp·ti·cism
ə-ˌpä-kə-ˈlip-tə-ˌsi-zəm 
variants
or apocalyptism
: apocalyptic expectation
especially
: a doctrine concerning an imminent end of the world and an ensuing general resurrection and final judgment
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Found in many religious traditions, apocalypticism warns that catastrophe is looming and that humanity needs a tool to achieve salvation.
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024
In a way, our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon.
—John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
Still others dismiss the catalog of doom and gloom as mere apocalypticism itself.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Often apocalypticism is then differentiated from both millenarianism and eschatology.
—Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
The apocalypticism and the persecution complex of the movement are perfectly suited to the task.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
Huntington doesn’t pay much attention to conservative Protestant apocalypticism, which was a key factor in this era.
—Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
Death, violence and apocalypticism surged with the Black Death of the 1340s.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
Initially, white evangelical apocalypticism was conservative and anti-statist, but not overtly partisan.
—Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024
In a way, our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon.
—John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
Still others dismiss the catalog of doom and gloom as mere apocalypticism itself.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Often apocalypticism is then differentiated from both millenarianism and eschatology.
—Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
The apocalypticism and the persecution complex of the movement are perfectly suited to the task.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
Huntington doesn’t pay much attention to conservative Protestant apocalypticism, which was a key factor in this era.
—Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
Death, violence and apocalypticism surged with the Black Death of the 1340s.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
Initially, white evangelical apocalypticism was conservative and anti-statist, but not overtly partisan.
—Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
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