Associations to the word «Eschatology»

Wiktionary

ESCHATOLOGY, noun. (countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
ESCHATOLOGY, noun. (uncountable) The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian and Islamic theology, the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment.

Dictionary definition

ESCHATOLOGY, noun. The branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope