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单词 to immanentize the eschaton
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to immanentize the eschaton
U.S. Politics (hyperbolical). to immanentize the eschaton: to attempt to bring about utopian conditions in the world; to seek to create heaven on earth (cf. eschaton n.). Frequently in negative contexts, as don't immanentize the eschaton.Apparently coined by William F. Buckley with allusion to the writings of Eric Voegelin (cf. quot. 1952). The phrase is commonly used depreciatively by conservative critics of progressive or utopian political ideologies, as communism, socialism, etc.
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1952 E. Voegelin New Sci. Politics vi. 163 The immanentization of the Christian eschaton made it possible to endow society in its natural existence with a meaning which Christianity denied to it.]
1969 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 17 Mar. 14/1 William F. Buckley, conservative writer and editor, is now becoming a television personality, albeit an unusual one. He used the phrase ‘immanentize the eschaton’ on the boob tube recently.
1997 Rev. Amer. Hist. 25 99 What impresses one most forcibly in Revolt Against Modernity is the huge distance separating both these thinkers from any of the forms of political activism that have employed their names, or made slogans, however implausible (‘Don't immanentize the eschaton!’) out of their work.
2013 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 17 Nov. The significance of those jobs was not any value that Mr. Obama could add to them; it was simply that they brought him one step closer to the moment when he could ascend to the nation's highest office and immanentize the eschaton (or, create heaven on Earth).
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