Now even as ancient Jewish apocalypticism profoundly challenged the orthodox guardians of the Torah, a challenge which is profoundly renewed in Paul,
modern apocalypticism profoundly challenges Christian orthodoxy.
Or is
modern apocalypticism a genuine recovery and renewal of an original Christian apocalypticism, one which had perished or become wholly transformed in the victory of an ancient Christian orthodoxy, then only to be renewed in profoundly subversive and heretical expressions?
So that if a pure enactment of the death of God occurs throughout all of the full expressions of a uniquely modern apocalyptic thinking, does this movement fully and finally distinguish ancient and
modern apocalypticism?
But if a uniquely
modern apocalypticism is inseparable from the death of God, a death of God which it can know as apocalypse itself, could this be the first purely conceptual realization of the Kingdom of God?
Not exact matches
But «corporate personality,» demonology, Messiahship,
apocalypticism, the Logos - doctrine, and many other mental categories in the Bible are not
modern.
In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in
Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular
apocalypticism in contemporary America.