Eschatology: The word arises from the Greek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ἔσχατος https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%94%CF%83%CF%87%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82 eschatos meaning "last" and -logy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-logy meaning "the study of", first used in English around 1550.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology#cite_note-1 The Oxford English Dictionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary defines eschatology as "The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind."[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology#cite_note-2 In the context of mysticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism, the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine. In many religions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion it is taught as an existing future event prophesied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy in sacred texts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_text or folklore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore. More broadly, eschatology may encompass related concepts such as the Messiah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah orMessianic Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Age, the end time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time, and the end of days.---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
One could wonder if this coming of Trump, Putin, ISIS, the Clintons, Xi and the resurge of ™ and mindfulness..are just historical bit parts of a pre-millennial preparation? And add in anthropocentric global warming as the explosion of materialism? ..We just have to get through this to the New Jerusalem, a heaven on earth? Driving now on return home to Fairfield through the bible-belt listening to the radio, of course the radio preachers are not thinking about revolutionary transformational transcendent meditationism like some of us may but I have just been at a conference with 2 days of scholarly papers delivered on the millennialism in various communal groups also like ours (millenarian). Throughout the conference papers were scattered use of academic terms of: eschatology, millennialism, dispensation, apocalypticism, and millenarianism. A quick review: Pre-millennialism http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-61/dispensational-premillennialism-dispensationalist-era.html http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-61/dispensational-premillennialism-dispensationalist-era.html https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/322-examining-premillennialism https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/322-examining-premillennialism Apocalypticism http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Apoc_Def.htm http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Apoc_Def.htm Apocalypse: Definitions and Related Terms by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. Scholarly Definition of "Apocalypse"(from the SBL's "Apocalypse Group"; published in J. J. Collins, Semeia 14 [1979] 9): " 'Apocalypse' is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial insofar as it involves another, supernatural world." -Collins Driving, 600 more miles to Fairfield to go..
