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The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World with John Jeffries Martin

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Apocalyptic Thoughts

CNN's John Sutter puts three thinkers in a room and asks them to think about apocalypticism. He chooses Ibn Khaldun, Nikilo Machiavelli and Joseph Hakoan from the 16th century. Each one thought seriously about prophecy and how prophecy works within history," he says. "How do we make sense of historical change in relationship to apocalyptic beliefs?"

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