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From Intrinsic to Radical Crisis in the United States : A Cultural Perspective

IdeAs, 2013
The various crises the United States went through over the first decade of the century, from the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the environmental disaster of Katrina to the financial crisis that started in 2008, remind us that America has ...
Jacques Pothier
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Apocalyptic reflections in the studies of the Russian orthodox priest Alexander Men

Cхід, 2019
The relevance of the article is due to the increased interest in the cultural heritage of the last century. The creative achievements and worldviews of priest Alexander Men, which are a significant component of the spiritual Russian culture, have been ...
Maria Bardyn
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Un studiu intertextual asupra Cântecului Anei din Targumul Profeților (1 Sam. 2:1–10) și al secțiunii aramaice din Cartea Daniel (Dan 2–7)

TheoRhēma, 2015
The aim of this study is to single out possible intertextual connections between the Song of Hannah in the Targums to the Prophets and the Aramaic section of the Book of Daniel.
Daniel Olariu
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Revelation as an apocalypse: Critical considerations on the literary genre apocalypse

Verbum et Ecclesia
In popular discourse, Revelation is frequently characterised as an apocalyptic text concerned with the cataclysmic end of the world. This article offers a critical overview of historically informed scholarly attempts to define and reconstruct the ...
Robert J. van Niekerk, Ernest van Eck
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ESCHATOLOGY AND ENTROPY: AN ALTERNATIVE TO ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL'S PROPOSAL

Zygon, 2012
Traditional eschatology clashes with the theory of entropy. Trying to bridge the gap, Robert John Russell assumes that theology and science are based on contradictory, yet equally valid, metaphysical assumptions, each one capable of questioning and ...
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Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2021
This essay confronts a growing consensus that the apocalyptic mode is the wrong way to tell the story of climate change. Contrary to the widely held belief that an apocalyptic framework invites apathy and political disengagement, I contend that the ...
Hannah Nelson-Teutsch
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Reconsidering a source of Sir David Lyndsay's The Monarche and its significance in the early Scottish apocalyptic tradition

Acta Neophilologica
Parallel to the distinctive character of Reformation in Scotland, the Protestant apocalyptic tradition in this country showed an original, nationalist-oriented style, defining itself against both English and French tendencies.
Juan Manuel Castro Carracedo
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Danielboek as apokaliptiek

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2001
The tales in the Book of Daniel (Dan 1-6) do not have typical apocalyptic features. The tales form part of a book that also includes visions (Dan 7-12) that exhibit definite apocalyptic features.
M. Nel
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Historiese en sosiale oorsprong(e) van apokaliptiek

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2002
Historical and social origin(s) of apocalyipticism How and where did apocalyptic literature originate? What is the relation between apocalyptic literature on the one hand, and prophesy and wisdom literature on the other? Should apocalyptic literature be
M. Nel, D.J. Human
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Apocalyptic Allegories

RSA Journal, 2020
Eschatological expressions underwent an epistemic shift with the Trinity tests on July 16, 1945 from an imaginative practice of predicting futurity to a cataclysmic vision of complete annihilation.
Dibyadyuti Roy
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