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	Apocalypse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apocalyptic literature is of considerable importance in the history of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Rastafarian tradition, as beliefs such as the resurrection of the dead, judgment day, heaven and hell are all made explicit in it.
		Apocalyptic religious literature is regarded as a distinct branch of literature.
		In recent times the designation apocalyptic literature, or apocalyptic, has commonly been used to include all the various portions of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, whether canonical or apocryphal, in which eschatological predictions are given in the form of a revelation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apocalypse (2228 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Apocalyptic breeds Oklahoma City syndrome - bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apocalyptic thinking in the Christian tradition goes back to a form of Judaism of the second century B.C. to the first century A.D. that expressed the struggle of the Jewish people against their colonization by the Greek and then the Roman empires.
		Apocalyptic is an extreme form of the prophetic patterns of denunciation of evildoing by the powerful and annunciation of coming redemption.
		But apocalyptic absolutizes the prophetic patterns of denunciation and annunciation into a schema of world history divided between the forces of God and Satan, and claims to be able to read the meaning of contemporary events in the light of this scheme.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n37_v31/ai_17288417 (1141 words)

	REVELATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apocalyptic as we are using the word in this study is a literary genre or mindset that arises in times of trial, distress, suffering, and persecution.
		Apocalyptic derives from the Greek word apokalypsis meaning "a revelation, an uncovering, a disclosure." Apocalyptic is a broad term, appearing first in Biblical criticism at the beginning of the 19th cent.
		Apocalyptic literature is not, however, limited to the canonical Scriptures, for a vast pool of apocalyptic, or heavily apocalyptically flavored texts are available to the biblical critic.
	www.centerce.org /BIBL666/Apocalyptic.htm (1010 words)

	Revelation, Apocalyptic Writing and the Old Testament
		Apocalyptic refers, in a broad sense, to a group of writings found in the biblical world between 200 B.C. and A.D.100.
		However, were we to read the apocalyptic works of the time when Revelation was written and before, we would come to see the book in a totally different light.
		Revelation challenged the claims of the apocalyptic writers, their ideas of history, where God was working, who the people of God were and the nature of the end-time.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/Rev/apocalyptic.htm (2232 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 49, No.3 - October 1992 - ARTICLE - Jesus, Apocalyptic, and World Transformation
		Apocalyptic is a "disclosure" or "revelation," first witnessed by an announcing prophet, which is unfolding in the realm of spirit and which is, at the present moment, bringing human history to the threshold of a great reversal.
		Apocalyptic has commonly been deprecated either because of its metaphysical and cosmological dualism or because it is conceived as an otherworldly concept which merely offers the suffering and alienated an escape from real life.
		Apocalyptic imagery will always be rejected as long as it is assumed that its primary referent is to a modern, scientific image of the natural world, the life of which will come to a close with the arrival of God's kingdom.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1992/v49-3-article9.htm (6073 words)

	Article: Anti-Apocalyptic Fiction, by Tom Doyle
		Though there is an apocalyptic battle, the result of the battle is that both the leaders of the rebellion and God and his lieutenant are destroyed.
		In Babylon 5, the apocalyptic conflict comes at the onset of the "third age of man," and the series is set in the period leading up to the Shadow War in the year 2260 (one thousand years after the prophetic year of 1260).
		Or conversely, one could argue that the vision of a mature humanity outgrowing the apocalypse is a redirection (and not a repression) of the millennial impulses and tensions existing prior to the years 2000 to 2001.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020527/anti-apocalyptic.shtml (3106 words)

	JCN: Judaism's Apocalyptic Horsemen
		The road to tragic events to often is paved with apocalyptic pronouncements as historic events in the middle East demonstrate.
		The apocalyptic proponents of the book of Daniel appear to be mainly a passive group outside the corridors of power in Hellenistic Israel, awaiting the inevitable downfall of the evil empire they despise.
		This may be one of the dominant stimuli to triggering the apocalyptic mode of expression and imagination, and a facet of the situation in Orthodoxy today.
	www.zahavy.com /fdu/apocalypticjcn.htm (1532 words)

	ICG Spaces - community weblog - Apocalyptic Islam
		Apocalyptic Islam is a vibrant strand of conservative Islam that is helping propel the terrorist effort.
		Apocalyptic groups require a belief in the imminent end of the world (lending them absolute conviction in their sole righteousness), a definite goal, and the impetus to excel beyond one's ordinary abilities.
		Most modern Muslim apocalyptic scenarios start with the Arab-Israel conflict or the 1990 Gulf War in which a Muslim Antichrist called Dajal will gain control over most of the world save for a resistant group of anti-western Muslim nations and lead the West and Israel against Muslims.
	spaces.icgpartners.com /index2.asp?NGuid=BBE104138447458DA30A1894008D43D1 (607 words)

	Gnosticism and Apocalyptic
		The term "Apocalyptic" means "uncovering" or "revealing", and is used to refer to that broad movement which developed and flourished within the Judaic and later Christian religions from the 2nd century before the common era to the 2nd century after Christ.
		The reference to "God" in Apocalyptic, and "Knowledge" in Gnosticism may give the impression that Apocalyptic was solely an exoteric religious phenomenon, whilst Gnosticism was uniquely an esoteric spiritual praxis.
		Basically then, "Gnosticism" is concerned with the beginning of things; with the unfolding of God from the transcendent Absolute, the origin of the cosmos and the soul, the pre-creation crisis or "fall" and the origin of evil, and the descent and ensnarement of the Light within the Darkness of matter.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Gnosticism/Gnosticism_and_Apocalyptic.htm (585 words)

	Apocalyptic Background Of SDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many apocalyptic writings were attributed to famous legendary or historic figures to whom the hidden meaning of current and historical earthly events was said to have been revealed via visionary experience.
		Apocalyptic texts were to be read as allegories of the life to come, rather than literally applied to current earthly events.
		While Luther made ample use of apocalyptic imagery in his denunciation of Rome and believed the Second Coming was near, he regarded the book of Revelation as "neither apostolic nor prophetic." His German translation of the Bible separated Revelation from the rest of the New Testament by putting it in an appendix.
	home.earthlink.net /~jcmmsm/SDApocalyptic.html (8262 words)

	Ascough: Apocalyptic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An investigation of the apocalyptic genre, which will include its uses and the means to interpret it.
		The primary focus of the course will be the theological perspectives and social functions of apocalyptic in Jewish and Christian traditions, with a focus on the book of Revelation.
		We will also survey the appropriation of apocalyptic themes throughout history in artistic forms such as art, fiction, and film, with particular attention to our own time and cultures.
	post.queensu.ca /~rsa/615_Overview.htm (174 words)

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		All three of these components are present in a truly apocalyptic group, and serve to mold it together into a possibly (though not necessarily) destructive organism, to which the outside world is an enemy to be conquered and dominated.
		If apocalyptic tendencies are latent in a group or faith, and the tendencies begin to appear, then they are gradually going to influence everyone, whether consciously or not.
		Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly an apocalyptic group, as is easily ascertained by the pamphlets and other literature it puts out, and its ideologists regularly use apocalyptic motifs in the propaganda war against the PLO and Israel.
	www.mille.org /scholarship/papers/cookabs.html (2113 words)

	3. Apocalyptic Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As we begin to study apocalyptic literature in its various dimensions it is important to define some basic concepts.
		One of the main features of an apocalyptic community is its marginal status within the larger society.
		Apocalyptic eschatology is more supernatural in that God breaks into history in cataclysmic ways to realize his goal.
	www.hope.edu /bandstra/RTOT/PART3/PT3_3.HTM (461 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening the extinction of mankind.
		A brief overview identifies seven major categories of apocalyptic films: the religious or supernatural, celestial collision, solar or orbital disruption, nuclear war and radioactive fallout, germ warfare or pestilence, alien device or invasion, and scientific miscalculation.
		Appendices provide additional examples of apocalyptic movies excluded from the main text, a sampling of post-apocalyptic cinema which is distinct from the apocalyptic genre and examples of apocalyptic television.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313315/0313315272.html (206 words)

	B461 -- Apocalyptic Literature: Introduction
		What we call "apocalyptic" is a style of literature which appears on the scene of early Judaism at the beginning of the third century before the common era.
		Thus, in an attempt to rescue God from the scourge of doubt, such promises were pressed from the present into the future, rescuing the prophet and God from the accusation of falsehood.
		Both of these approaches to the study of apocalyptic (from prophetic roots and from wisdom roots) attempt to draw a line of continuity from Israel's past to its present life in crisis.
	www.theology.edu /apoc2.htm (394 words)

	Rel 101: Understanding the Bible: Apocalyptic Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This type of literature is most readily recognized in the Book of Daniel in The Old Testament and The Revelation to John in the New Testament.
		Apocalyptic in the New Testament apart from the Revelation to John.
		This and #6 indicate apocalyptic literature to be produced during a time of crisis when encouragement and secrecy were needed.
	www.westminster.edu /staff/brennie/apocalyp.htm (234 words)

	HISTORICAL ROOTS OF APOCALYPTIC
		It must not be thought that the apocalyptic literature of this period arose spontaneously without antecedent events and historical development.
		Apocalyptic was indeed called forth by the circumstances of the day.
		What Hanson seeks to demonstrate from this chart is that the evident dissimilarity between prophecy and apocalyptic has led many researchers astray on a search for the roots of apocalyptic outside of the prophetic tradition.
	faculty.bbc.edu /rdecker/phd/depriest/1roots.html (1714 words)

	Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives
		Apocalyptic good news for the poor may be bad news for the rich and self-satisfied who, having not been left behind by the goodies of this world, quite naturally assume that they shall be heirs of good things in the next.
		It is not because apocalyptic is strange, archaic, and irrelevant, but rather because we who bed down with the rich and drive Volvos, find the judgements of God upon us in biblical apocalyptic.
		Apocalyptic literature has the courage to assert that there is much good that needs doing in the world which is quite beyond our capacity.
	catalystresources.org /issues/294willimon.html (1484 words)

	Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster.
		There is a considerable degree of blurring between this form of science fiction and that which deals with false utopias or dystopic societies.
		A work of apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic fiction might also be called a ruined earth story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_science_fiction (2724 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 37, No. 2 - July 1980 - BOOK REVIEW - New Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Indicating the worthlessness of Hal Lindsey's treatments of biblical apocalyptic, he emphasizes that this literature is enjoying a renewed value and vitality today, in the hands of competent interpreters like Wolfhart Pannenberg and Jürgen Moltmann and in some Latin American theologians of liberation.
		Apocalyptic thought can too easily be domesticated within the essential frame of reference of Christian theology because of its "universalism" as over against the particularistic outlook of biblical prophecy (Pannenberg).
		It clearly indicates the continuing value of the apocalyptic literature found in the canon of the Bible and outside.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1980/v37-2-bookreview2.htm (328 words)

	Article: Christian Apocalyptic Fiction, by Tom Doyle
		A frequent Christian apocalyptic plot device is to have the general public erroneously believe that the Rapture was caused by UFOs, thus implicitly condemning the contemporary obsession with the fringe world between reality and science fiction.
		In addressing genetic engineering, Christian apocalyptic fiction is concerned with hybridization: scientifically mediated interbreeding or intermingling of the alien or supernatural and the human.
		That Christian apocalyptic fiction is hostile to such hybrids is not surprising, given the genre's general insistence on purity and rejection of the apocalyptic other.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020408/apocalyptic.shtml (3498 words)

	APOCALYPTIC DEFINED
		An apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial, insofar as it involves another, supernatural world.
		Perhaps "apocalyptic" should be used as an adjective and should primarily convey some notion of revelation (from the term apokalypsis, which means "a disclosure," "a revealing of something," or simply, "a revelation.").
		The first is that there are certain distinctive characteristics of apocalyptic literature, though it is not necessary for every feature to be present in a given work in order for it to maintain its classification as an apocalypse.
	faculty.bbc.edu /rdecker/phd/depriest/1defined.html (1847 words)

	Second Quarter Index
		One way He does this is through the apocalyptic prophecies in which the Lord spoke to the prophets (through dreams and visions rich in symbolism) to help us see way beyond the draining fervor and hopeless ferment of a fallen, dying world.
		That message is Fear not, God is in control; His plan will finally triumph, and the greatest of all His promises is as real as God Himself, the promise of a new life in a new body in a new and sinless world for those who by faith endure to the end.
		Most important, the apocalyptic reveals to us Jesus, who confronted the powers of evil in heaven; in His three-and-a-half-year ministry on earth; and, finally, in His sacrifice on the cross.
	www.ssnet.org /qrtrly/eng/02b (989 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film by Joel W. Martin
		The visual equivalent of the child's game of nesting addresses--my address is such and such a street in such and such a town, state, and country, on planet earth, the Milky Way, in the universe--this shot suggests the earth still counts.
		This enormously popular animated film is apocalyptic in both the erudite and popular senses of the term.
		The apocalypt, who gained an awesome perspective on the heavens, a wondrous message for humanity, is partially silenced, but by small-minded people, not the film itself.
	avalon.unomaha.edu /jrf/antifem.htm (5271 words)

	Feminism and Apocalyptic Thought: Strange Bedfellows
		This demonization of sex echoes throughout other apocalyptic discourses; for example, the Heaven's Gate group also saw sex as a dilemma and began to actively eradicate all evidence of it from the physical bodies of its followers, castrating the male members and erasing physical signs of individuality or difference in each member's appearance.
		I recognize two competing apocalyptic discourses provided by the feminist movement of the novel that is in opposition to a masculinist apocalytic discourse represented in the men out to assasinate Jenny Fields, making her the Whore of Babylon as well as sometimes coming from Garp himself.
		MacKinnon's argument is not only apocalyptic in its essentialist and universalizing tenets, but she also fails to understand the ways that gender inequality can work in a very different way for African-American women, Asian-American women, all 'minority' women because of varying historical and socio-economic backgrounds.
	www.engl.duq.edu /servus/Order_and_Disorder/lorenson.html (4111 words)

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