To immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the end of days, see eschatology) in the immanent (material) world. More recently, it has been used by conservatives as pejorative against what they perceive as utopian schemes, such as socialism, communism, etc. The phrase has also been much used by Discordians, and is cited in the Principia Discordia. It has also been used by evangelical Christians, and by their critics, as well as in discussions of Gnosticism. According to Jonah Goldberg, writing in the National Review online (on 16 January 2002) "In modern parlance, the phrase was coined by the late, great Eric Voegelin in The New Science of Politics in 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s, thanks largely to William F. Buckley's popularization of the phrase, Young Americans For Freedom turned it into a political slogan." Following text unrecoverable... |