eschaton

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In particular we are progressing towards the eschaton, "in an eschatological direction".

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  1. (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

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  • The Seven Alien Dwarves have done some remodeling and our human crew are on their way toward the eschaton, the place where all who ever lived, human and alien, will live again forever. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
  • On one level, M. Murawiec examines the remarkable ideological and sociological parallels between Islamic extremism's "death cult" and medieval gnostic movements, suggesting that both share a zeal to impose Heaven on Earth (to "immanentize the eschaton", in Eric Voegelin's famous phrase) and a contempt for mundane human life. —  Stromata Blog
  • In particular we are progressing towards the eschaton, "in an eschatological direction". —  Stand Firm
  • The eschaton has already arrived in the Incarnation and all that flows from it. —  Stand Firm
  • We are not yet at the eschaton but are progressing towards it. —  Stand Firm
 

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