Jesus' repeated declarations that the kingdom of God was at hand echoed popular apocalyptic views.
The sect's response, which seems predictable given its apocalyptic views, was to start fires that devoured the compound within minutes.
One thing that I've discovered in the last few months is that I'm not cut out to take the apocalyptic view of ordinary events.
They were missionaries for renewable energy, with an apocalyptic view of America's future.
James Howard Kunstler takes a yet more apocalyptic view.
I don't wholly subscribe to that apocalyptic view of politics, but there is clearly a problem.
Equally alive is the aristocratic apocalyptic view on mass culture as the destruction of genuine art.
Such an idea would seem to have both an inflated view of old media and a too apocalyptic view of new media, whatever that is.
Such an apocalyptic view cannot be dismissed out of hand - Congo has some 200 ethnic groups, and it borders nine other countries.
Two new books by men neither Hopi nor Hindu offer apocalyptic views.