Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Christian eschatology"

millennium
millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on Rev. 20, has recurred in Christianity since the earliest times. Today it is held and taught by the ... Read more
Last Supper
Last Supper in the New Testament, meal taken by Jesus and his disciples on the eve of the passion. Jesus broke bread and passed a cup of wine among the disciples, identifying himself with the bread and the wine and linking the meal to his impending death on the cross. The meal was an anticipation b... Read more
Magog
Magog , in the Bible. 1 Son of Japheth. 2 The land from which Gog , the eschatological enemy of the people of God, comes to wreak havoc on Israel. ... Read more
Judgment Day
Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. The Christian belief in the Last Judgment asserts that this world will end, the dead will be raised up in the ge... Read more
Judgment Day
Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. The Christian belief in the Last Judgment asserts that this world will end, the dead will be raised up in the ge... Read more
apocalypse
apocalypse [Gr.,=uncovering], genre represented in early Jewish and in Christian literature in which the secrets of the heavenly world or of the world to come are revealed by angelic mediation within a narrative framework. The genre seems to have arisen in Palestine in the 3d cent. BC, perhaps as a... Read more
Jesse
Jesse , in the Bible, the descendant of Rahab, the grandson of Boaz and Ruth, and the father of David. Referring to the restoration of the Davidic monarchy, the Book of Isaiah speaks of a shoot coming from the "stump of Jesse." The "root" of Jesse is the Davidic monarch of the eschatological... Read more
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden in the Bible, first home to humankind. In it were the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil. Having eaten the forbidden fruit of the latter tree, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden and God's presence. Eden, often called Paradise, is symbolic of eschatologica... Read more
Melchizedek
Melchizedek or Melchisedec [Heb.,=king of righteousness], in the Bible, king of Salem and "priest of the most high God." He blessed Abraham after the defeat of Chedorlaomer, and Abraham gave him tithes from the enemy's spoils. Later, Melchizedek is regarded as an eternal priest, typifying t... Read more
Pseudepigrapha
Pseudepigrapha [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 BC and c.AD 200, not found in the Bible or rabbinic writings. Apocalypses are well represented in the Pseudepigrapha; those of the early Judaic period may date ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Christian eschatology"

Apocalypse
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...identifies the last book of the Christian Bible, the Revelation of John; a genre of ancient Judeo-Christian visionary literature; or doomsday...world. It is one feature of Christian eschatology, the branch of theology dealing...
Rogier van der Weyden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and other traditional symbols of the tortures of hell suggests a highly subjective, almost modern conception of Christian eschatology. Stylistically the work is distinguished by a greater attenuation of form and a more sophisticated treatment...
millennium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on Rev. 20, has recurred in...
Unidentified Flying Objects
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Interpretations of UFOs are made to fit into larger patterns of belief ranging from anti-government conspiracies to Christian eschatology (i.e., the end of the world). UFOs are said to be involved in unknown phenomena such as mysterious patterns...
Judgment Day
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day...the Bible are numerous. The Christian belief in the Last Judgment...speculation. No generally accepted Christian teaching pronounces when Judgment...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...there is evidence to suggest that Bruegel was attempting to substitute a new and more relevant eschatology for Bosch's traditional view of the Christian cosmos. In Bruegel's earliest signed and dated painting, the Combat of Carnival and Lent...
Thomas J. J. Altizer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and 20th century Protestant Christian theology. While considered...and its claim to ground Christian faith in the religio-ethical...Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology (1961); Mircea Eliade and...Sacred (1963); The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966); The New...
End of the World
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...The theological term eschatology refers to teachings about...from the Greek eschaton ). Eschatology includes a consideration...The most dramatic form of eschatology is apocalypticism. The apocalyptic...In the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) passages...
Sectarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...The first substantial movement of Christian dissent occurred only in the seventeenth...practice of Christ. Following a realized eschatology, they also believed that Christ had...created their own peculiar rituals and eschatology. In its rich tradition of spiritual...
Augustinus Bea
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Secretariate for Promoting Christian Unity for the forthcoming Second Vatican Council. Christian unity was one of Bea...sources of revelation, eschatology, missions, mariology...Judaism or any other non-Christian religion. He stressed...

Dictionary entries related to "Christian eschatology"

Eschatology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Christian theology. Jewish Roots Christian eschatology emerges from Jewish apocalypticism...apocalypticism live on in Christian eschatology, in orthodox doctrine as...kingdom. All features of Christian eschatology that differ from Jewish apocalypticism...
eschatology
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church eschatology , the doctrine of the last...became peripheral to most Christian theology. The concept was...teaching as ‘realized eschatology’. K. Barth reinterpreted biblical eschatology in terms of the presence...
Armageddon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Armageddon. In Christian eschatology , the scene of the last battle between good and evil. The name appears only in Revelation 16. 16, where it is said to be ‘Hebrew’; it is usually taken to be from Har Megiddo, mountain of Megidda.
Peter, second epistle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...generation have died (2 Pet. 3: 4). The epistle attempts to refute heretics who are evidently embarrassed by Christian apocalyptic eschatology . They argue complacently that the delay of the parousia shows that there will be no judgement at all...
Native American Church
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...is a religion combining some Christian elements with others of Indian...multicolored hallucinations. Christian elements include the cross, the Trinity, baptism, and some Christian theology and eschatology. The peyote rite is an all...
von Hügel, Baron Friedrich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...was concerned with the relation of Christianity to history, the place of human culture in the Christian life, and the significance of eschatology . He saw the Institutional, the Intellectual, and the Mystical as the three abiding elements...
four
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...white, red, black, and pale horses seen in Revelation. four last things in Christian belief, death, judgement, heaven, and hell, as studied in eschatology. four-letter word any of several short words referring to sexual or excretory...
Didache
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...x2018;teaching’). Christian instruction in prayer, ethics...Twelve Apostles is a short early Christian manual of morals (chs. 1–...practice (7–15), and eschatology (16).
Antichrist
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...against Jesus at the end of days. Similar ideas can be found in Jewish eschatology where the powers of evil are finally overcome in the ultimate great battle. In later Christian tradition Antichrist has been identified with Satan ; with the emperor...
Monism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...in Western philosophy is in Christian von Wolff's Logic (1728...first gnostic sects were pre-Christian. Scholars argue about Persian...existence is temporary: Gnostic eschatology states that ultimately the...Sufism. Only rarely do Judeo-Christian forms of mysticism accept...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology. By Jurgen Moltmann. Minneapolis...different aspects or horizons of Christian eschatology which have been too often sundered in the history of Christian faith and theology. Even where...
The Future as God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...s Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology. Explorations in Contemporary...conference is theme-centered; Christian eschatology (the theme of its 1999 meeting...Its Future Already Begun? Christian Eschatology, Modern Utopianism and Exterminism...
HOPE AGAINST HOPE: CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM.(Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...HOPE AGAINST HOPE: CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE...powerful apologia for the Christian hope in the transcendent...that as a book on eschatology, it will convince...of the claim that Christian hope will succeed...
Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Hart. Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium...world, not least for the Christian. This is where the discussion intersects with Christian eschatology. Eschatological language...
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...modern approaches to eschatology and the rebirth of...constitutive of Christian eschatology: the personal (eternal...recent major work on eschatology that devotes serious...thrust of his focus on Christian hope in God who comes...
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...volume by Moltmann interprets Christian eschatology in light of God's creative...such an unusual - for a Christian - eschatology would lead to a theology of...constitute a truly new reading of Christian hope, one that is more than...
Jesus among Her Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Origins.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Origins. By Melanie...reconstructions of Jesus, eschatology, and Christian origins are interposed...p. 11). In "Eschatology and Identity: Q's Jesus and Christian Diversity" (chapter...
Eschatology and Christian Nurture: Themes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Religious Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2001; 407 words ; Milton McC. Gatch, Eschatology and Christian Nurture: Themes in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Religious Life, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000...
Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism, by Adela Yarbro Collins. JSJSup...Adela Yarbro Collins's new book Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism is an at-times fascinating collection...
Jesus among Her Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Origins
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...among Her Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Origins (HTS 55; Cambridge...the historical Jesus, and eschatology. Given the author's observation...Christianity and to shape Christian identity in a changing world...