apocalyptic beliefs
Expecting world's end
Apocalyptic beliefs center on expectations of a cataclysmic end to the world or the current age, often involving divine judgment, cosmic destruction, or radical transformation.
These beliefs appear across religious traditions—Christianity's Book of Revelation, Norse Ragnarök, Hindu cycles of creation and destruction.
In secular contexts, apocalyptic beliefs may focus on nuclear war, climate collapse, or pandemic: His apocalyptic beliefs about AI made him a technological pessimist.
The term can carry dismissive connotations, suggesting beliefs are overwrought or paranoid.
- last daysConcluding time span
- MilleritesAntebellum apocalyptic Christian sect
- Fifth MonarchistsEnglish apocalyptic Protestant sect
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
climate change · existential dread · messianism · rebirth · nihilism · fatalism · antichrist · judgment day · renewal · Jehovah's Witnesses · nuclear war · Zoroastrians · hopefulness · Branch Davidians · Armageddon · fire and brimstone · asteroid impact · rapture
apocalyptic beliefsfuturism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
utopianism · optimism · gradualism · progressivism · long-termism
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