Apocalyptics is an interpretative category used in the early 20th C in the debate surrounding the meaning of history and politics following the Shoah, totalitarianism and the planetary domination of the world market. The role of the Christian religion in the development of Western politics was at the core of this debate – which ranged from the political theology of Schmitt and Taubes to the philosophy of history according to Löwith and Kojève and to Foucault’s “pastoral power” and “governmental power”. However, the obvious interest of the first of these authors in apocalyptics contrasts with the limited presence of the issue in Foucault’s studies. The object of this article is to understand these different positions by attempting to define the pertinence of Christianity within an analysis of the current age.