(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction. [from 19th c.]
“Historical eschatology appears in one of three distinct forms— messianism, millennialism, or apocalypticism.”
“Also essential to Daniel and subsequent apocalypticism is the immediacy of the message and the promise of salvation.”
“In the early 1970s, inspired by his apocalypticism, members of the sect dressed in sackcloth and conducted demonstrations denouncing America's abandonment of God.”