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Death and apocalypse in a time of fear
Author(s) -
Trelstad Marit
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12434
Subject(s) - fear of death , tonic (physiology) , psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , neuroscience
This article explores consequences of perpetuating apocalyptic patterns of thought and proposes that fear‐based responses produce passivity and exacerbate the ends they prophesy. Martin Luther proposed honest, faithful confidence when facing personal death and the end of the world. Catherine Keller stressed that apocalyptic logic and fear excite violence and propagate death. Faithfulness in love, connection to others, and refusal to collapse the world into binaries offer tonic for fear.