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• Title: Violence and End-Time Theologies: The Search for a Responsible Eschatology (Report)
• Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 282 KB

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Abstract This paper explores the apocalyptic dimension of eschatology within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In its consideration of the intersection between religion and terrorism, the author finds that under certain conditions of stress eschatological hope frequently yields to apocalyptic fatalism. In particular, those who perceive themselves to be marginalized from significant participation in public life often turn to violent religious ideologies to make sense of their grievances, both real and imagined. When religions provide an apocalyptic lens to interpret social dislocation, the result is despair of the present world and presumption about the manner in which future events will unfold. The religious, apocalyptic lens provides the justification, sanctification, and mandate to resist perceived social ills through the allowance of violent acts on the grounds that violence is permissible in holy war. The context of the alleged holy war allows for violent acts that would otherwise be construed as immoral or unjust. Hence, an outlet is created by the religion for the socially marginalized to find meaning and importance as soldiers engaged in an ultimate struggle of good against evil.

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