Polish Messianism

proper noun

A school of thought, chiefly of 19th-century Poland, which taught that the life of Jesus Christ was mirrored in the history of the Polish nation, meaning that it had to suffer, but would rise again and then lead Europe to a new and better age.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Polish messianism

  1. human sciencesA school of thought, chiefly of 19th-century Poland, which taught that the life of Jesus Christ was mirrored in the history of the Polish nation, meaning that it had to suffer, but would rise again and then lead Europe to a new and better age.
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