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eschatologism en · NOUN

Etymology

From eschatology + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The belief that the world is renewed through apocalyptic crises.
   • Bloch's eschatologism is a political programme, to which the book on Müntzer bears testimony. 2014, Ivan Boldyrev, Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism:
   • 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. 2011, Alexei Nesteruk, The Universe as Communion:

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eschatology · eschatologist