presentist
- noun
- /ˈprɛzəntɪst/
- Formal
- As a presentist, she sees the prophecies in Revelation as relevant to the lives and struggles of people today.
Examples
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Prescient should not, however, be confused with presentist.
Academic text (2005) -
However, his final assessment was couched within a strongly Whiggish or presentist bias.
Academic text (2018) -
Historians became increasingly enamored with the presentist focus of Robinson and Beard in the years leading up to 1920.
Academic text (1994) -
There is nothing naively presentist, though, about Pasanek's interpretive undertaking.
Academic text (2016) -
"Judging history of science from a 'presentist' perspective is, in Weinberg's view, 'indispensable if what one wants is to understand how science progressed from its past to its present.'"
Academic text (2016) -
The presentist argues that the events in Revelation reflect challenges we face today.
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Many presentists believe that understanding current events is essential to interpreting the Book of Revelation.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Presentist comes from present meaning 'now' and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who believes or practices something'. Think of someone who reads prophecy as happening 'right now'—that image explains why a presentist in theology believes the Book of Revelation is being fulfilled today.