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Etymology edit

eschatology +‎ -ism

Noun edit

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.

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