4 résultats pour "apocalyptic"
- apocalyptic literature
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Millennium.
Postmillennialism, also referred to as progressive millennialism, interprets the Bible less literally than premillennialism does. Postmillennialists regard the millennium as a1,000-year reign of Christian ideals that will end with the return of Christ. In this view, the millennium will not start suddenly through an apocalypse, but graduallythrough the efforts of human beings. Postmillennialists believe that through social reform and by upholding Christian ideals, the kingdom of God will be built...
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The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
I.1 Varieties 2 Resurrection of the Dead ( al-Qiy āma ) and the Day of Judgment ( Yawm al-H i s āb) are at hand. 4 Eschatological thought tends towards totalism: the conclusion is final and decisive, a closed solution. The messiness of earthly existence must itself burn up in the process. This vision of a f inal and ultimate solution welcomes zero -sum thinking (dualistic), imagining a closed form of redemption: the good in heaven, the evil in hell; the body and all its disorder...
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Bible.
collection of many different books. The Old Testament is by no means a unified book in terms of authorship, date of composition, or literary type; it is instead a veritablelibrary. Generally speaking, the books of the Old Testament and their component parts may be identified as narratives, poetic works, prophetic works, law, or apocalypses.Most of these are broad categories that include various distinct types or genres of literature and oral tradition. None of these categories is limited to the...