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Realized eschatology is a Christian eschatological theory popularized by J. A. T. Robinson, Joachim Jeremias, Ethelbert Stauffer (1902–1979), [102] and C. H. Dodd (1884–1973), that holds that the eschatological passages in the New Testament do not refer to the future, but instead refer to the ministry of Jesus and his lasting legacy.
"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apokálypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation. [13] It has been defined by John J Collins as "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 ...
Occasionally the term "physical eschatology" is applied to the long-term predictions of astrophysics about the future of Earth and ultimate fate of the universe. [ 137 ] [ 138 ] In approximately 6 billion years, the Sun will turn into a red giant .
A climate apocalypse is a term used to denote a predicted scenario involving the global collapse of human civilization due to climate change. Such collapse could theoretically arrive through a set of interrelated concurrent factors such as famine, extreme weather , war and conflict, and disease. [ 1 ]
Climate apocalypse – Term to describe possible catastrophic events due to climate change; Climate Clock – Public countdown of time until 1.5°C of global warming; DEFCON – Alert posture used by the United States Armed Forces; Doomsday device – Construct which could destroy all life on a planet or a planet itself
As Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, puts it, for those born in 2020, this is, in some ways, the best of what’s to come.
The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned. The Doomsday Clock was begun in 1947, as a metaphor for the danger that the world ...
The Images of Change project provides side-by-side photos of the same place over time to document the environment changes caused by nature and man. NASA's before and after images show Earth's ...