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Eschatology

noun
1.
The branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind.






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"Eschatology" Quotes from Famous Books



... conversion the unpretentious marvel of this seance has been a dire trouble to Jean Kostka, partly on account of its eschatology, but still more because the sitters were conscious at its close of a breath passing over their faces, while he himself felt the presence of lips against his own. Poor Jean Kostka! They were all abased on their knees, which happens occasionally, even at ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite

... space will not permit us now to even touch upon, much less delineate, the all-important principles symbolized by the recorded martyrdom of Jesus, and the doctrine of atonement. But they, and all the eschatology of the Gospels, and with which the apocalyptic book of riddles is filled, will be readily unravelled as we still farther trace the working of those laws already seen, that are not restricted in their operation by relations of ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Eschatology" :   eschatological, divinity, theology, eschatologist



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