eschatology
noun
es·cha·tol·o·gy
ˌe-skə-ˈtä-lə-jē 
plural eschatologies
1
: a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind
2
: a belief concerning death, the end of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humankind
specifically
: any of various Christian doctrines concerning the Second Coming, the resurrection of the dead, or the Last Judgment
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The title, in Muslim eschatology, refers to a narrow bridge between Paradise and Hell, which is fitting, insofar as Laxe’s movie is both a nightmarish experience and an exhilarating one—a pitiless ordeal that is nonetheless underpinned by extraordinary love and tenderness.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
And the eschatology of her Southern gothic classics like A Good Man is Hard to Find.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
There is a reason that religion specializes in matters of cosmogony and eschatology.
—Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
According to Christian eschatology, the Antichrist refers to a person or people prophesied in the bible to oppose Christ and substitute themselves in Christ’s place before the second coming.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
Indeed, part of what gives modern trauma theory its appeal is precisely its covert importation of Judeo-Christian redemptive eschatology: a grand narrative of human moral progress in which suffering is an essential motivation for all the principal actors.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
Fashions come and go in all human endeavors—even eschatology, the study of the end of the world.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2010
But the year 2012 likely never figured into Maya eschatology, the study of end times — that one was all us.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
Finding a way to measure deep time will shed light on all manner of questions from evolution to astronomy to eschatology, many of them not yet asked.
—Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2015
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
And the eschatology of her Southern gothic classics like A Good Man is Hard to Find.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
There is a reason that religion specializes in matters of cosmogony and eschatology.
—Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
According to Christian eschatology, the Antichrist refers to a person or people prophesied in the bible to oppose Christ and substitute themselves in Christ’s place before the second coming.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
Indeed, part of what gives modern trauma theory its appeal is precisely its covert importation of Judeo-Christian redemptive eschatology: a grand narrative of human moral progress in which suffering is an essential motivation for all the principal actors.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
Fashions come and go in all human endeavors—even eschatology, the study of the end of the world.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2010
But the year 2012 likely never figured into Maya eschatology, the study of end times — that one was all us.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
Finding a way to measure deep time will shed light on all manner of questions from evolution to astronomy to eschatology, many of them not yet asked.
—Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2015
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“Eschatology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eschatology. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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