to do with the end of the world, the coming of Christ
2006-10-10 11:03:06 · 6 answers · asked by cillazviko 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
it's the theology of the "last days" , ie the End of the World as described in the Bible ( principally in:- "Apocalypse of St John" - the Revelation; Daniel, in the O'T; and the more apocalyptic sayings of Jesus in the gospels.)
eschatology seeks to pull all this together and make sense of it - but this leads to ludicrous things like the Jehovah Witnesses predicting the End of World will happen in 1917. Even though 1917 was a pretty calamitous year for the world, it very manifestly carried on existing, and the JW's had to rewrite their eschatology in a way that wasn't so specific on dates...
similarly, you have the loony fringe on the evangelical end of Christianity who predict we are currently living in the last days and Armageddon is about to hit us. Up until the fall of Communism they predicted the agent of Satan was the Soviet Union and world communism, that the righteous and the Satanic would have one major war before God brought it to an end. (As Terry Pratchett pointed out, "Game Over, Insert Coin")
Without breaking step, the world enemy to these people is now Islam, the agency through which Satan will punish the world... which leads me to suspect that Revelations is a "Rorschsach Blot" where religiously unbalanced people see what they want to see. The most terrible thing is thast people who think like this are in positions of power where they, for instance, advise the American President , and if they run churches, they ensure up to 40% of the population of the USA believes this rubbish... what a frightening world we live in!
2006-10-10 11:24:52 · answer #1 · answered by AgProv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eschatology is the doctrine of the last or final things, judgment, the state after death.
It's far easier to look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary! Why spend your points asking a question that the Oxford or the Chambers English Dictionary could solve in seconds?
2006-10-11 03:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Songbird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
study of end times
2006-10-10 11:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the study of 'end times'
2006-10-10 11:05:50 · answer #4 · answered by Giselle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com
2006-10-10 11:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
onelook.com
2006-10-10 11:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋