Noun:

नरक और स्वर्ग का सिद्धांत, मृत्यु-निर्णय, परलोक विद्या, परलोक सिद्धांत,

eschatology's Usage Examples:

See also Eschatology and works there quoted.

It was considered a sufficient safeguard against the spiritualizing eschatology of Origen and his school to have rescued the main doctrines of the creed and the regula fidei (the visible advent of Christ; eternal misery and hell-fire for the wicked).

This idea that the Messianic kingdom of the future on earth should have a definite duration has - like the whole eschatology of the primitive Church - its roots in the Jewish apocalyptic literature, where it appears at a comparatively late period.

2; see his Eschatology, Hebrew, Jewish and Christian.

(b) Eschatology in the Judaism of the Greek period began to assume a new form.

It is not at all improbable that Jewish eschatology in its later developments was powerfully influenced by the Persian faith.

The individual hoped that he would live to share the nation's good, and thus the two streams of Old Testament eschatology at last flow together.

The eschatology of the New Testament attaches itself not only to that of the Old Testament but also to that of contemporary Judaism, but it avoids the extravagances of the latter.

The attribution of a mystic significance to the millennium-period, though perhaps not prominent in that theory of Christian eschatology to which the names Millenarianism and Chiliasm (from Gr.

Also in eschatology, as may be expected, a change took place.

Synonyms:

divinity, theology,