Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind.
- noun A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, the doctrine of the last or of final things; that branch of theology which treats of the end of the world and man's condition or state after death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable System of
doctrines concerning final matters, such asdeath . - noun uncountable The study of the
end times — theend of theworld , notably in Christiantheology thesecond coming of Christ, theApocalypse or theLast Judgment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind
Etymologies
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The study of last things is called eschatology from the Greek word eschatos, meaning "the last or extreme."
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The term eschatology in our theological vocabulary refers to the study of the eschaton, or the end times.
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The term eschatology in our theological vocabulary refers to the study of the eschaton, or the end times.
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In other words, in every case I can think of, eschatology is synonymous with war crimes and should be looked upon in the same light.
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In other words, in every case I can think of, eschatology is synonymous with war crimes and should be looked upon in the same light.
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In a compressed pivotal dialectic, the form of Victorian eschatology is formulated coextensively with its own historical force — as, so to say, the inherent
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If the goal is to interest more people in eschatology and bring the message of salvation to more people, then I pray God blesses those efforts.
Archive 2006-12-01 Andrew Beckner 2006
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If the goal is to interest more people in eschatology and bring the message of salvation to more people, then I pray God blesses those efforts.
Maybe this isn't the best idea Andrew Beckner 2006
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The unfortunate fact of this sort of eschatology is that it encourages us to withdraw from the world — to become, in Carl Henry’s words, world-resisters rather than world-changers, a generation of enlightened spectators rather than empowered ambassadors.
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This is what's called eschatology — a belief, or psychology, that we are approaching the End Time.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
trivet commented on the word eschatology
the study of "final things" like death and the end of the world.
March 6, 2007