Some people think so.
A conference at the University of Chicago will explore the idea of apocalypticism and its role in Western culture. I believe that it is one of the most important religious themes in Western history. McGinn, along with University of Chicago Professor of Hebrew Bible John J. Collins and Stephen J. Stein, Chancellors' Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, are the editors of the Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism , a three-volume series to be published in late 1998 that explores the many different aspects of apocalypticism.