escapologist

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For example, the movement simultaneously embraces two incompatible eschatologies, to use the theological term.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024

And at the same time, for half our race, the old terrors and eschatologies are no more.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Religion has clothed this essential feature in a hundred mythologies and eschatologies, and one has always given place to another, the more sublimed to the more robust.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

It was a period of astrology, theosophy, mysticism, cults of saviors, eschatologies.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

For it prompts religion no longer to seek its treasure, the true nature of things, and its everlasting home in time and space, as the mythologies and eschatologies have sought them repeatedly.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf