annihilationismn.
/əˌnʌɪəˈleɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm/ 1. Theology. The doctrine of the total annihilation (annihilation n. 2b), soul as well as body, of unrepentant sinners after death. Cf. Conditionalism n.
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1848 Home Missionary Mag. Sept. 114/1 We have had much to contend with—Infidelity, Universalism, Campbellism, Mormonism, Annihilationism, and Nothingarianism.
1910 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. III. 822/2 Conditionalism, which, in its modern development, involves Annihilationism.
1979 A. A. Hoekema Bible & Future xix. 266 The other main form which the denial of eternal punishment has assumed is found in the doctrine of annihilationism.
2005 Christian Res. Jrnl. 28 38/1 Others deny the traditional doctrine of hell in favor of a position called annihilationism, which says that hell, if it exists at all, is not everlasting.
2. In Buddhist thought: the doctrine upheld in some other religious beliefs (and generally regarded by Buddhists as heretical or erroneous) that the individual is or has an enduring, unified self that ceases to exist at death.Annihilationism contradicts not only the doctrine of anatta (anatta n.), but also those of karma and rebirth.
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1920 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 732/1 Beside the error of eternalism (sassătavāda), or indwelling immutable entity, it [sc. Buddhist teaching] set the error of annihilationism (uccheda-vāda).
2005 C. Olson Different Paths of Buddhism iii. 45 The position of external causation leads to a belief in annihilationism, or the complete destruction of elements within the chain of causation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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