Editing Apocalypticism (section)

==Religious apocalypticism==
Religious views and movements often focus on cryptic revelations about a sudden, dramatic, and cataclysmic intervention of [[God]] in [[human history]]; the judgment of humankind; the salvation of the faithful elect; and the eventual rule of the elect with God in Heaven and/or in a renewed Earth.{{refn|<ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="NovaReligio 1999"/><ref name="Hubbes 2016"/><ref>"[https://www.cdamm.org/articles/apocalypticism Apocalypticism]." In James Crossley and Alastair Lockhart (eds.) ''Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements''. 2021</ref>}} Arising originally in [[Zoroastrianism]],{{refn|<ref name="Collins 2020"/><ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/>}} apocalypticism was developed more fully in [[Jewish eschatology|Judaic]], [[Christian eschatology|Christian]], and [[Islamic eschatology|Islamic]] eschatological speculations.{{refn|<ref name="Collins 2020"/><ref name="Greisiger 2015"/><ref name="Levack 2013"/><ref name="Lietaert Peerbolte">{{cite book |author-last=Lietaert Peerbolte |author-first=Bert Jan |year=2013 |chapter=How Antichrist Defeated Death: The Development of Christian Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Early Church |editor1-last=Krans |editor1-first=Jan |editor2-last=Lietaert Peerbolte |editor2-first=L. J. |editor3-last=Smit |editor3-first=Peter-Ben |editor4-last=Zwiep |editor4-first=Arie W. |title=Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=[[Novum Testamentum|Novum Testamentum: Supplements]] |volume=149 |pages=238–255 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MoKxIeOTkqYC&pg=PA238 |doi=10.1163/9789004250369_016 |isbn=978-90-04-25026-0 |issn=0167-9732 |s2cid=191738355}}</ref><ref name="Crossley 2021">{{cite journal |last=Crossley |first=James |date=September 2021 |title=The Apocalypse and Political Discourse in an Age of COVID |journal=[[Journal for the Study of the New Testament]] |location=[[Thousand Oaks, California]] |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=93–111 |doi=10.1177/0142064X211025464 |doi-access=free |issn=1745-5294 |s2cid=237329082 }}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica">{{cite web | title=Apocalypticism – theology | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/apocalypticism | access-date=2019-05-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531144449/https://www.britannica.com/topic/apocalypticism | archive-date=2019-05-31 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Strauss 2009">{{cite web | last=Strauss | first=Mark | title=Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn't Happen | website=Smithsonian | date=2009-11-12 | url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/ | access-date=2019-05-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531165827/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/ | archive-date=2019-05-31 | url-status=live }}</ref>}}