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Definition of Presentist
1. Noun. A theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time.
Definition of Presentist
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presentist
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentist
Literary usage of Presentist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory: Conference edited by Gus A. Koehler (1997)
"So the Polish "presentist" orientation can be seen as a justifiable defense in
response to a new social order. The effect of restricting temporal horizons ..."
2. Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist by June Z. Fullmer (2000)
"35-37 summarized Davy's early papers from a more "presentist" point of view than
is adopted here. ..."
3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"... discovery of the "Other;" that it is directed to uncovering the origins of
the modern world and so falls into the presentist and teleological fallacies; ..."
4. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1862)
"... presentist, and futurist. With him the salient points lie in the seven seal
book, reaching from vi. 1 to xx. 10. The first six seals depict the history ..."
5. A Topographical History of Staffordshire: Including Its Agriculture, Mines by William Pitt (1817)
"The Church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a rectory: the King is the patron, and
the Lord Chancellor presentist. This edifice is modern, and built in the ..."
6. The approaching end of the age viewed in the light of history, prophecy and by Henry Grattan Guinness (1882)
"We are strongly of opinion that the questions at issue between presentist and
futurist interpreters of prophecy, should be both patiently studied, ..."
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