Strategic Analysis of Salvation Discourse, with an Emphasis on the Apocalyptic Thought of Abrahamic Religions

Belief in the appearance of a world savior and reformer has been mentioned in different forms by different ethnic groups and nations with various religions and cultures. Most religions, especially Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have pictured a bright and hopeful future for human beings and promised a savior who will prepare the grounds for the salvation of human beings from tyranny and oppression, removal of tyrants and the arrogant and the spread of justice and fairness and establishment of a utopia at the end of the time. The best of these programs has been mentioned in Islam with an emphasis on rationality and narration (verses and traditions) in which it has clearly and precisely talked about the desired future or Mahdavi utopia and pictured a future with a favorable salvatic approach in the apocalypse with all its details which is ahead of all awaiters. Therefore, to be acquainted more with this subject, it is required to precisely and correctly explain the cognitive and epistemological aspects of the savior and thus, by studying the teachings of religions and schools with a descriptive-analytic approach, we investigate and measure the criteria of belief in savior in Abrahamic religions and list the most crucial apocalyptic strategies of the religions. We did our best in this paper to investigate the strategy of salvation discourse and its whatness around the issue of salvation and belief in savior by doing research in the teachings of Abrahamic religions.