However, the greatness of Christianity was first manifest when its founders, utterly convinced of the imminent end of the world, «gave free reign to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society» (AI 16). (religion-online.org)
Does it shatter our faith in Jesus to think that he may have been mistaken as to the imminent end of the world and the events that would surround it»? (religion-online.org)
The religious utopianism of the Anabaptists in the Reformation period and of the Levellers and Diggers in England grew out of the Christian expectation of the imminent end of the world and the attempt within the religious community to begin to live the life of the new order here and now. (religion-online.org)