Eschatology Definition

ĕskə-tŏlə-jē
noun
The branch of theology dealing with last things, such as death, immortality, resurrection, judgment, and the end of the world.
Webster's New World
The doctrines concerning these.
Webster's New World
A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Eschatology

Noun

Singular:
eschatology
Plural:
eschatologies

Origin of Eschatology

  • From Ancient Greek ἔσχατον (eskhaton) -neuter of ἔσχατος (eskhatos, “last”)- + -logy.

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek eskhatos last eghs in Indo-European roots –logy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Eschatology Sentence Examples

  • It is not at all improbable that Jewish eschatology in its later developments was powerfully influenced by the Persian faith.

  • The eschatology of the New Testament attaches itself not only to that of the Old Testament but also to that of contemporary Judaism, but it avoids the extravagances of the latter.

  • Also in eschatology, as may be expected, a change took place.

  • The primitive Christian eschatology was preserved in the West as it was not in the East, and in times of exceptional distress the expectation of Antichrist emerged again and again.

  • The individual hoped that he would live to share the nation's good, and thus the two streams of Old Testament eschatology at last flow together.

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