Why weusethistermis becausePaul, as far as weknow it, neverwrote an apocalypse, and yethisletters show stronginfluenceofapocalypticism, that is an apocalypticworld view.
Fromkin is much too dismissive of the growing role of religion in modern America, for instance, and he is overly sympathetic to the notion of world government and to the overblown fears of environmental apocalypticism.