Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind.
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In theology, the doctrine of the last or of final things; that branch of theology which treats of the end of the world and man's condition or state after death. The topics which belong theologically to eschatology are death, immortality, the resurrection, the second coming of Christ, the millennium, the judgment, and the future state of existence.
Wiktionary
- n. countable System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
- n. uncountable The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian theology the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἔσχατον (eskhaton) -neuter of ἔσχατος (eskhatos, "last")- + -logy. (Wiktionary)
- Greek eskhatos, last; see eghs in Indo-European roots + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The study of last things is called eschatology from the Greek word eschatos, meaning "the last or extreme.”
“The term eschatology in our theological vocabulary refers to the study of the eschaton, or the end times.”
“In other words, in every case I can think of, eschatology is synonymous with war crimes and should be looked upon in the same light.”
“In a compressed pivotal dialectic, the form of Victorian eschatology is formulated coextensively with its own historical force — as, so to say, the inherent”
“If the goal is to interest more people in eschatology and bring the message of salvation to more people, then I pray God blesses those efforts.”
“The unfortunate fact of this sort of eschatology is that it encourages us to withdraw from the world — to become, in Carl Henry’s words, world-resisters rather than world-changers, a generation of enlightened spectators rather than empowered ambassadors.”
“This is what's called eschatology — a belief, or psychology, that we are approaching the End Time.”
“In Sunday School today, we talked about conceptions and misconceptions relating to the eschatology, that is the study of things related to the end.”
“This somewhat overheated "living-in-the-last-days" mentality is, however, vociferously opposed by another school of conservative Christian eschatology, which is called postmillennialism.”
“In theology we have many curious subdivisions; among the rest eschatology, that is to say, the geography, geology, etc., of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eschatology’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ephod, epact, eozoic, eonism, ensiform, ensanguine, enoptromancy, enounce, enosimania, ennomic, enneagon, eolith and 616 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Ultimates
ultimate, penultimate, The Ultimates, Ultimate Frisbee, Ultimate, Ultimate!, preantepenultimate, antepenultimate, Ultimate Fighting..., ultimate cause, somersaultimate, resultimate and 25 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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Pretentious Christianese
"Religious" words that make you sound like a pretentious jerk no matter how appropriate their application. Essentially any word you can use as an excuse not to actually have a real conversation. =)
christophany, hermeneutics, exegesis, exegete, theophany, epistle, bibliology, sola scriptura, exposition, apocalyptic, apocrypha, transubstantiation and 25 more...
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Talking About Words
The favorite words of Talking Tyrants
dolorous, parsimonious, apotemnophilia, odalisque, tuberoinfundibular, morass, ostentatious, sybaritic, vermilion, onomatopoeia, eschatology, teleology and 49 more...
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palimpsest
an overlapping of manuscripts.
eschatology, ostentatiously, harangue, caricature, caveat, chiaroscuro, Emollient, Diaphanous, Demesne, cataclysm, milieu, puerile and 23 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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Words
parti pris, eschatology, maudlinism, schmaltz, ethos, phantasmagoria, ethology, concupiscence, ethoses, ethea, logolepsy, lethologica and 1 more...
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RELI - branches of theology
christology, hamartiology, pneumatology, soteriology, ecclesiology, missiology, eschatology, angelology, demonology, sacramentology, cosmology, anthropology and 2 more...
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edward ryklin's list
viewy, kibosh, snark, rostrum, flummox, ossuary, cosset, cacography, grok, tonsorial, postprandial, eschatology and 7 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 256 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 475 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eschatology.
trivet the study of "final things" like death and the end of the world. Mar 6, 2007