eschatology
- n the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind
- German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment.
- He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'tre is to prepare the way for the messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos.
- With its "devolutionary theopantism" and "axiological eschatology," theology is jaw-breakingly abstract.