messianism

This is what scholar John Gager has called “the myth of the Maccabees” and it contributes to later forms of messianism that optimistically believed that they too could throw off the shackles of foreign domination.

This big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 novel about messianism, interplanetary struggle, and ecological plunder is a corrective of sorts to David Lynch’s renowned misfire.

In Israel, cynicism actually means flirting with messianism: annex, sigh, annex, sigh, and join in hymns to the land of Israel.

There is no fervent messianism like that of the settler rabbis, no secular militarism like that of Zeev Jabotinsky.

But for Microsoft, the marketing messianism is more than fun and games.

Or are they gripped by some kind of apocalyptic delusion, some dream of messianism achieved by global destruction?