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eschatology
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death. 2 (context uncountable English) The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian and Islamic theology, the second coming of Christ, the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1834, from Latinized form of Greek eskhatos "last, furthest, uttermost, extreme, most remote" in time, space, degree, from PIE *eghs-ko- , suffixed form of *eghs "out" (see ex- ) + -ology . In theology, the study of the four last things (death, judgment, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eschatology \Es`cha*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? the furthest, last + -logy.] The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eschatology is a Christian spiritual movement founded by American writer and practitioner William W. Walter after Walter left Mary Baker Eddy 's Christian Science church in 1912. He named his organization "The Walter Method of Christian Science"; the term ...
Usage examples of eschatology.
Toward the end of his Borja years, a novice will also study the fundamentals of the more important disciplines such as scrying, remembrancing, mechanics and eschatology.
Meanwhile, defining and systematizing went on, loose notions hardened into rigid dogmas, free thought was hampered by authority, the scheme generally received assumed the title of orthodox, anathematizing all who dared to dissent, and the fundamental outlines of the patristic eschatology were firmly established.
With these hints, we are ready to advance to the general patristic scheme of eschatology.
This law of transmigration of souls which brought even orthodox eschatology into confusion, seemed an endless servitude and pain to Indian consciences, which felt crushed by it.