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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"

Eschatology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Eschatology Eschatology, from the Greek word eschaton...reality itself. Thus, traditionally eschatology has dealt with the themes of death...it is legitimate to hope for. For Christians, that destiny is envisioned as the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ernst Bloch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...thinking made him of great interest to Christian readers, especially those who took...historical development seriously. Such Christians saw points of convergence with their theology. Both communist critics and Christians who welcomed Bloch spoke of his system as a "secular eschatology." This ...
Thomas J. J. Altizer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and its claim to ground Christian faith in the religio...Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology (1961); Mircea Eliade...1963); The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966); The...Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake...
End of the World
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...The theological term eschatology refers to teachings about...In the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) passages...apocalyptic terminology. In the Christian New Testament, passages...It circulated widely among Christians at a time when they were...figure have analogies in ...

Dictionary entries related to "Christian eschatology"

Eschatology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ESCHATOLOGY. The concept of eschatology...the traditional genre of Christian dogmatic treatises about...things that, according to Christian doctrine, happen after...doctrine exists only in Christian theology. Jewish Roots...
eschatology
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible eschatology ‘The doctrine...Greek: ta eschata ) came in Christian discourse to mean: death...delay did not weaken their Christian faith since they held that...13: 30) in the first Christian generation. It is less compelling today. Modern Christians may prefer to give a new...
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 ...of the epistle of Jude in 2 Pet. 2: 1–18. Christians of the first generation have died (2 Pet. 3: 4). The...attempts to refute heretics who are evidently embarrassed by Christian apocalyptic eschatology . They argue complacently that the delay of the parousia...
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).
Colossians, Paul's letter to the
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...they may have been Jewish Christians, since in Col. 4: 11...mentions those few Jewish Christians who still support him...which Paul denounced Jewish Christians in Galatia (Gal. 3: 1...a positive statement of Christian belief. Possibly this is...the neglect of a future eschatology all point ...
Thessalonians, Paul's epistles to the
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...the Judgement . Paul's Christian belief was that Christ...afterlife, and so were now as Christians expecting very soon to enjoy...3: 5) and urged the Christians to have hope . True, some...disadvantage when Christ returned: Christians in this life already shared...each place by REB. The ...

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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...Moltmann shows that eschatology cannot but be distorted...beyond Neoorthodox eschatologies, which attempted...by means of an eschatology focusing on "the...
The Future as God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology. Explorations in Contemporary...conference is theme-centered; Christian eschatology (the theme of its...Has Its Future Already Begun? Christian Eschatology, Modern Utopianism...
HOPE AGAINST HOPE: CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM.(Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...transcendence and the reduction of eschatology to the immanent goal of...powerful apologia for the Christian hope in the transcendent...however, that as a book on eschatology, it will convince modern...directed, of the claim that Christian hope will succeed in overcoming...history occurred because ...
Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Trevor Hart. Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium...him well in the manifesto of Christian hope that this book comprises...twentieth century have failed, the Christian hope for God's future in the...
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...intellectum. In particular, eschatology is not really a doctrine...individual" and "universal" eschatology. Like a number of other...for M., constitutive of Christian eschatology: the personal...opposition from Jews and Christians alike. In keeping with...universalist thrust of his focus on ...
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...of Hope (1964), some Christian interpreters were puzzled...and expectation, while Christians had a little or perhaps...demonstrated that thoughtful Christians welcomed an interpretation of the Christian faith that, without denying...Moltmann interprets Christian eschatology in light ...
Muslims and Christians: eschatology and mission.(Essay)
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...present; five were Christian, with three of the Christians invited to make presentations...Hope in Biblical Eschatology," which the planners...Iranian Shi'ite Eschatology Iranian Shi'ite eschatology is one of a variety of Muslim eschatologies. The literature...similarities to a ...
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 ; ...among Her Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Origins. By Melanie Johnson...how public debates about Christian identity lurk behind these academic questions about Q and Christian origins, and that an alternative...
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...
In the end shall Christians become Jews and Jews, Christians? On Franz Rosenzweig's apocalyptic eschatology (1).
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Schwarzchild has put it, Jewish eschatology reckons "the mixture of...s thought on Jewish-Christian-pagan relations. Related...whether, in the end, the Christians shall become Jewish or the Jews, Christian. To address these questions...and passive whereas the Christians covenant is ...