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Indigenous Eco-Apocalypticism

Environmental Philosophy, 2023
Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s 2010 collaborative work, The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, centers on a prophetic warning of impending apocalyptic collapse due to anthropogenic environmental destruction. An indigenous contribution to the contemporary burst of eco-apocalyptic writing and the search for a new ecological social order, The ...
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Marian Apocalypticism

2019
Hundreds of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported in the past two centuries and apocalyptic warnings of imminent divine judgement are a prominent feature of these visions. Emerging in the nineteenth century, the prophecies associated with such apparitions assert that Mary is appearing as part of an unfolding end-times plan in order to avert
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Apocalypticism and Radicalism

2014
This chapter looks at several historical examples of apocalyptic radicalism in relation to apocalyptic literature, including the trial of Anne Hutchinson in New England in 1637 and Gerrard Winstanley’s interpretation of Daniel 7. Other examples include apocalypticism in the English Revolution involving Mary Cary, Anna Trapnel, and Winstanley.
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Apocalypticism and Messianism

2012
Apocalypticism and messianism originated in ancient Judaism. Apocalypticism, or the apocalyptic worldview, is a distinctive combination of several core axioms, including a conviction in the imminent end of history. The first apocalypses date from the Hellenistic era (323–363 bce) and include the early Enochic literature and the biblical book of Daniel.
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Jesus and Apocalypticism

2011
This chapter highlights that the work of John J. Collins and other North American scholars attempt a more nuanced analysis of apocalyptic literature that tries to separate out literary genre, apocalyptic eschatology, worldview and social setting. By contrast, Christopher Rowland has championed an approach which marginalises the role of a particular ...
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Wisdom and Apocalypticism

2014
In the 1960s, Gerhard von Rad declared that apocalypticism is a child of the wisdom tradition rather than prophecy. Von Rad first laid out his argument in Old Testament Theology, spawning a great deal of scholarly discussion. This chapter examines von Rad’s ideas and their impact on scholarship with regard to both early Judaism and the New Testament ...
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Torah and Apocalypticism

2017
The earliest apocalypses, in the books of Enoch and Daniel, appeal to a source of revelation that is independent of the Mosaic Torah. The sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls, however, combine a fundamental emphasis on the Torah with a claim of higher revelation, which guides the proper interpretation of the Torah.
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