Editing Apocalypticism (section)

{{Short description|Religious belief about the end of the world}}
{{About |the belief in the immanence of the end of the world|the Judeo-Christian literary genre concerned with the revealing of hidden truths | Apocalypse | other uses|Apocalypse (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Durer Revelation Four Riders.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'', woodcut print from the ''[[Apocalypse (Dürer)|Apocalypse]]'' of [[Albrecht Dürer]] (1497–1498), [[Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe]]]]
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'''Apocalypticism''' is the [[religious belief]] that the [[Eschatology|end of the world]] is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.{{refn|<ref name="Collins 2020">{{cite book |author-last=Collins |author-first=John J. |author-link=John J. Collins |year=2020 |chapter=Apocalpyticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFjPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |editor-last=McAllister |editor-first=Colin |title=The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature |location=[[Cambridge]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=19–35 |doi=10.1017/9781108394994.002 |isbn=9780191752230 |lccn=2019042577}}</ref><ref name="Greisiger 2015">{{cite book |author-last=Greisiger |author-first=Lutz |year=2015 |chapter=Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rhRCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |editor1-last=Blidstein |editor1-first=Moshe |editor2-last=Silverstein |editor2-first=Adam J. |editor3-last=Stroumsa |editor3-first=Guy G. |editor3-link=Guy Stroumsa |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=272–294 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697762.013.14 |isbn=978-0-19-969776-2 |lccn=2014960132 |s2cid=170614787}}</ref><ref name="Levack 2013">{{cite book |author-last=Levack |author-first=Brian |year=2013 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbdOjWEIF4wC&pg=PP65 |chapter=Possession in Christian Demonology |title=The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West |location=[[West Haven, Connecticut]] |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |pages=65–70 |doi=10.12987/9780300195385-006 |isbn=9780300195385 |jstor=j.ctt32bnwx.9 |lccn=2012042933}}</ref>}} This belief is usually accompanied by the idea that [[civilization]] will soon come to a tumultuous end due to some sort of catastrophic global event.{{refn|<ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="NovaReligio 1999"/><ref name="Crossley 2021"/><ref name="Douglas 2021"/><ref name="Socrel 2021"/><ref name="CTC-SENTINEL"/>}}

Apocalypticism is one aspect of [[eschatology]] in certain religions,{{refn|<ref name="Collins 2020"/><ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="NovaReligio 1999"/><ref name="Lietaert Peerbolte"/>}} the part of [[theology]] concerned with the final events of [[human history]],{{refn|<ref name="Collins 2020"/><ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="NovaReligio 1999"/><ref name="Lietaert Peerbolte"/>}} or the ultimate destiny of humanity ([[societal collapse]], [[human extinction]], and so on).{{refn|<ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="NovaReligio 1999"/><ref name="Hubbes 2016">{{cite book |author-last=Hubbes |author-first=László |year=2016 |chapter=Apocalyptic as a New Mental Paradigm of the Middle Ages |editor-last=Ryan |editor-first=Michael A. |title=A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition |volume=64 |pages=144–176 |doi=10.1163/9789004307667_006 |isbn=9789004307667 |issn=1871-6377 |lccn=2015036208 |s2cid=85463647}}</ref>}}