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Eschatology   Listen
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Eschatology  n.  The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eschatology" Quotes from Famous Books



... have no space here even to outline the eschatology of this people, nor to catalogue their pantheon. Siya and Siyana typified worldly love. Their ritual was, however, singularly free from those degrading elements usually found in love-cults. Priests ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... in Europe the primitive religion became modified little by little. On the borders of the Tigris and the Euphrates, as well as on the banks of the Nile, appeared the beginnings of a different eschatology and a vague expectation of a resurrection of the dead. The Hellenes and Romans, under the influence of philosophy, acquired another conception of immortality, and their institutions, issuing from collectivism, ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

... In the matter of eschatology Aaron ben Elijah gives a number of views without declaring himself definitely for any of them. The main difference among the three points of view quoted concerns the possibility of the resurrection of the body, ...
— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik

... Eschatology of the Scripture Doctrines of the Coming of the Lord, the Judgment, and the Resurrection. By Samuel Lee. Boston. J.E. Tilton & Co. 12mo. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various



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



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