enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Apocalypse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

    "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 ...

  3. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post...

    Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man made, such as nuclear holocaust; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; religious, such as the Rapture or Great Tribulation; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.

  4. Apocalyptic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic

    Apocalyptic is from Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις, romanized: apokálupsis meaning "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling, revelation".

  5. Glossary of Christianity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Christianity

    Apocalypse – any prophetic revelation or so-called End Time scenario, or to the end of the world in general Apostasy – (from Greek αποστασία, meaning a defection or revolt , from απο, apo , "away, apart", στασις, stasis , "standing") is a term generally employed to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's ...

  6. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and...

    Apocalypse is a Greek word referring to the end of the world. Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime. [1]

  7. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted...

    Belief in the apocalypse is most prevalent in people with lower levels of education, lower household incomes, and those under the age of 35. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the United Kingdom in 2015, 23% of the general public believed the apocalypse was likely to occur in their lifetime, compared to 10% of experts from the Global Challenges Foundation .

  8. Why Donald Trump still could not conquer Orange County - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/why-donald-trump-still-could...

    Donald Trump posted notable gains in Orange County during the election, but it was not enough to win the increasingly purple county that has become a suburban battleground between Republicans and ...

  9. Apocalypse (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_(disambiguation)

    Apocalypse (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set of the card game; Apocalypse, 1998; Apocalypse (1990 video game) Apocalypse, an expansion for Call of Duty: Black Ops II; Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, a 2016 role-playing video game; Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse, an expansion for the wargame; Werewolf: The Apocalypse, a role-playing game