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What does eschatology mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
  2. (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.
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The science-and-theology discourse on eschatology did not work toward divine revelation.
Third, fundamental to the whole project is the sense that Christology, particularly the death and resurrection of Christ, provides the key to eschatology.
Are we to dismiss Paul's words on the grounds that his understanding of eschatology, his thinking about final things and the end times, was off by a few thousand years?
This comprises outlines of the teaching on the persons of the Trinity, eschatology, eternal life, witness, and so forth.
Though he may still be a fundamentalist of art, he is no longer preoccupied by eschatology.
Even Mahavira and Buddha agreed that there could be no final answers to some of the difficult questions of cosmology, ontology, theology, and eschatology.

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