Eschatologies Definition & Meaning

Examples of eschatology in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The complex interplay of the microscopic and macroscopic determines cosmic eschatology. — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021 This theology, this eschatology (theology of end times) was codified by some OPC leaders in the mid-2000s, and has been the culmination of a long history of American exceptionalist theology and civil Christian religion in the United States. — Eve Ettinger, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 This secular revival has blessed its adherents with a scheme of ethics, aesthetics, eschatology, and soteriology all their own. — Tanner Greer, National Review, 17 Mar. 2020 New York was the end of the world, the site of a kind of cultural eschatology; Pittsburgh was a station on life’s way, the geographical end of a state where three rivers converged. — Gerald Early, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018 Hawking's gloom goes beyond decay into eschatology. — OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2017 A real apocalypse, like the killer flu in The Stand — Stephen King’s opus of epidemiologic eschatology — would be off the chart, with an RØ of 5 to 6 and a case fatality rate of 99 percent. — Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 22 June 2009 Its delirious eschatology foretells a final unity with the technological divine, through which the elect will make the transition from time into eternity. — Mark O’connell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017 Butt relates Bach’s complex sense of time to the evolving Christian understanding of eschatology, of the nature of the Second Coming. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2017 See More

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