Messianism

Quick meaning: Messianism is a noun meaning The belief in a messiah.

Meaning

The belief in a messiah.

Example Sentences

After his death, the monarchy was restored and his Puritanic messianism lost its power but its message endured in the American Colonies and amongst the English Nonconformists ready to blossom again in the evangelical awakening two hundred years later.

Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.

Word Forms

• messianisms

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Related dictionary entries include messianist, messianization, messiah, messiahship, pseudomessiah, futurism.

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