Sentences with phrase «secular eschatology»

Borrowing a secular eschatology from the Progressive movement, the next few American presidents — Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson — gave themselves over to schemes to reform and moralize the world.

The theme of promise, even in the form of secular eschatologies, speaks to something ineradicable in the human heart.

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He puts into question all forms of taken - for - granted religion whether it is Buddhism, Hinduism, mysticism, or secular «eschatologies» such as Marxism that claims there is a deterministic linear redemptive course to history.

Indeed, eschatology is not at all concerned with the meaning and goal of secular history, for secular history belongs to the old aeon, and therefore can have neither meaning nor goal.

In fact, it can be argued that Teilhard's is a two - stage eschatology, progressing from a presentation of scientific and socialist principles worthy of any secular millennium to the abandonment of earth in humankind's union with the Omega - God.