palingenesis
IPA: pˈæɫɪndʒˈɛnʌsʌs
noun
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
- The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
- (philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
- (uncountable, biology, chiefly historical or obsolete) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
- (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.
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Examples of "palingenesis" in Sentences
- Palingenesis can come from the right, as can revolution.
- (what Roger Griffin calls "palingenesis" -- a phoenix-like rebirth from the ashes).
- Belief in rebirth is almost worldwide—it is also sometimes called reincarnation, metempsychosis, palingenesis, or transmigration of souls.
- The body dies, and the Lord of life compares it to the death of the seed in the earth; and then comes the palingenesis — the rising in glory.
- In the first stage, a rural movement emerges to effect some kind of nationalist renewal (what Roger Griffin calls "palingenesis" -- a phoenix-like rebirth from the ashes).
- "palingenesis," the Sermon on the Mount, the apotheosis of the weak, the love of the people, regard for the poor, and the re-establishment of all that is humble, true, and simple.
- The eliminationist project is in many ways the signature of fascism, partly because it proceeds naturally from fascism's embrace of what Oxford Brookes scholar Roger Griffin calls palingenesis, or a Phoenix-like national rebirth, as its core myth.
- It grew in conjunction with the theory of palingenesis, taken from the words "born" and "anew", which argued that the external representation of the "seed" of Christianity, contained in the Gospels, had periodically "died", merely to be revived in new and better form, Socialism representing its latest and best expression.