eschatology
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- noun
- /ˌɛs.kəˈtɑː.lə.dʒi/
- Specialized
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escatología
- The church's teachings on eschatology address the end times and the fate of humanity.
- Christian eschatology
- doctrine of eschatology
- Eschatology: Universal Salvation
So Jewish apocalypticists often will how will shift Israelites eschatology.
- So Jewish apocalypticists often will how will shift Israelites eschatology.
Examples
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The bishops adopt the doctrine of eschatology to guide this process.
Academic text (1993) -
Each of us has our own eschatology, even if we don't realize it, or at least suspect it.
Academic text (2011) -
With this new view of eschatology, a new understanding has also developed in the Christian appreciation of hope.
Academic text (2003) -
Every culture has Its myths of eschatology, Destruction stories, End of time scenarios.
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Edwards' interest in Islam had primarily to do with its place in eschatology.
Academic text (2003) -
Accordingly, theology will always also conduct its business under the sign of eschatology.
Academic text (2004) -
Above all, Latin American Marxism is set within an eschatology that brooks no question.
Academic text (1992) -
The institutional church controls Christian eschatology but not liberatory social analysis.
Academic text (1992) -
The traditional theological approach to Islam in eschatology had not vanished in American culture, however.
Academic text (2003) -
The New Testament clearly opts for prophetic eschatology's transformative model as the most adequate.
Academic text (2006)
Surface Forms
Morphology
eschatology = eschat + ology
The word is built from a classical bound root plus the suffix '-ology', but the root is not recognizable to an average B1 learner, so the meaning is not predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Eschatology comes from Greek words eschatos meaning 'last' and -logy meaning 'study'. So it literally means the 'study of last things', which is why it refers to religious ideas about death, judgment, and the end of the world.