Giovanni Bazzana, a professor of New Testament at Harvard Divinity School, has been studying the apocalypse for years. That’s why, when Bazzana reflects on the natural disasters and social upheaval that have upended American life in 2020, he feels comfortable giving it a label. The trials of 2020 are an apocalypse in the original sense of the Greek word, he claims: a revelation or uncovering. Google searches for the word apocalypse spiked in late March in the U.S. as states began to impose coronavirus-related shutdowns. Ideas about the apocalypse persist throughout the centuries because they are a way for humans to grapple with their anxiety about change, Bazzana said.

Source: Huffington Post October 30, 2020 17:15 UTC