Definition of eschatology
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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Hawking's gloom goes beyond decay into eschatology.
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Its delirious eschatology foretells a final unity with the technological divine, through which the elect will make the transition from time into eternity.
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Butt relates Bach’s complex sense of time to the evolving Christian understanding of eschatology, of the nature of the Second Coming.
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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.
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Americans are as active as anyone else in the clash of eschatologies.
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Origin and Etymology of eschatology
Greek eschatos last, farthest
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