the.com/eschatology
The study of how everything ends, written by people confident they know.
means The branch of theology concerned with final things — death, judgment, and the ultimate destiny of the world.
from From Greek 'eschatos,' meaning 'last' or 'furthest,' joined with '-logia,' 'study of.' The word itself was coined relatively recently, in the 1800s, to give a tidy academic label to something humans had been anxiously speculating about since they first noticed the sun doesn't last forever.
- etymology
- Greek eschatos, meaning last or furthest
- scope
- covers death, judgment, heaven, and apocalypse
- irony
- every predicted end date has, so far, been wrong