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What is apocalypticism?

What is apocalypticism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (religion) A belief or doctrine based on apocalypse, especially which believes in an imminent end to the current world order.
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In the Tyrol and other parts of Austria the Anabaptist movement took on its own distinctive character, one heavily influenced by the currents of late medieval mysticism and end-times apocalypticism.
China's huge scale magnified the effects of apocalypticism in the Taipeng Rebellion.
In the early 1970s, inspired by his apocalypticism, members of the sect dressed in sackcloth and conducted demonstrations denouncing America's abandonment of God.
The reversal of worldly expectations through divine intervention is one of the most characteristic features of apocalypticism and contrasts with the older prophetic style.
Also essential to Daniel and subsequent apocalypticism is the immediacy of the message and the promise of salvation.
Hippolytus, responding to the irresponsible apocalypticism of his day, connected the sabbatical millennium to a chronology that explicitly dated the arrival of the messianic millennium.

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