eschatological

[ es-kuh-tl-oj-i-kuhl, e-skat-l- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Theology. having to do with eschatology, a system of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death, the Judgment, the afterlife, etc.:
This scenario stems from a perception of the world as morally imperfect, and a desire for its eschatological redemption.

This being 2012, the year the world may or may not end, certain people may find themselves in an eschatological mindset.

Obama cannot establish a new agency without being accused of having an eschatological intention of transmogrifying American life.

To this may be added problems of a more dogmatic nature, eschatological and otherwise.

Many questions specifically theological and eschatological assumed importance in his mind by reason of his surroundings.

“They shall see God” is probably used here in an eschatological sense.

Hence the practical Dualism on the ethical and eschatological side which has found its way into Monistic thought.

Some people found it too ascetic, to others it was purely eschatological; in either case it could not be adapted to our own time.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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