eschatologism

eschatologism

English

Etymology

eschatology +‎ -ism

Noun

eschatologism (usually uncountable, plural eschatologisms)

1. 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.

Related terms

• eschatology
• eschatologist