Historical eschatology appears in one of three distinct forms— messianism, millennialism, or apocalypticism. |
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Also essential to Daniel and subsequent apocalypticism is the immediacy of the message and the promise of salvation. |
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In the early 1970s, inspired by his apocalypticism, members of the sect dressed in sackcloth and conducted demonstrations denouncing America's abandonment of God. |
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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. |
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China's huge scale magnified the effects of apocalypticism in the Taipeng Rebellion. |
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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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The reversal of worldly expectations through divine intervention is one of the most characteristic features of apocalypticism and contrasts with the older prophetic style. |
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