Accordingly, as is but natural, many of the teeming crop of apocryphal Gospels, Acts, and Revelations which sprang up during the earlier ages of the Church are composed with a distinctly eschatological purpose.
It has been attempted to present them in such order as may best illustrate the development of the eschatological idea, and the increasing fusion of native traditions with the Church legends.
In the Voyage of the Curach of the Ua Corra,[139] the ethical and eschatological element is entirely in the ascendant.
Joel's eschatological picture appears indeed to be largely a combination of elements from older unfulfilled prophecies.
While Irenaeus held fast the traditional eschatological beliefs, yet his conception of the Christian salvation as a deification of man tended to weaken their hold on Christian thought.
The eschatology of the Old Testament is thus closely connected with, but not limited by, Messianic hope, as there are eschatological teachings that are not Messianic.
The day of the Lord is always an eschatological conception, as the term is applied to the final and universal judgment, and not to any less decisive intervention of God in the course of human history.
His chiliasm, too, is not Ebionitic but is immediately derived from scripture, and has less significance for his speculation than the other eschatological principles of Resurrection, Judgment, and Recompence.
Speculum spiritualis gratiæ published her visions of a reformatory and eschatological prophetic order, more subjective and personal than those of the former.
No set of theological concepts can be easily imagined which are more antagonistic to the canon of honorific, conspicuous consumption than are the eschatological ones.
It is, however, probably well within the truth to say that the transformation of early Christianity from an eschatological to a socialized movement is, in some respects, one of the most important changes in its history.
Their beliefs were, therefore according to this theory, weakened by dilution; vice versa the pagans were gradually converted to an enfeebled eschatological belief by imitation of the Christians, but the net result was a compromise, i.
Our more particular concern is, however, with the eschatological concepts.
In the othereschatological works of this period: e.
He goes on to exhort them to avoid impurity and work quietly, and then he speaks of the eschatological difficulties.
Lord's prophecy of the end of the world (the so-called "eschatological discourse" in chs.
They had begun to take excessive interest in unfulfilled prophecy and eschatological speculation.
Yet we find an eschatological discourse about the second coming in xiii.
To this may be added problems of a more dogmatic nature, eschatologicaland otherwise.
Many questions specifically theological and eschatologicalassumed importance in his mind by reason of his surroundings.
This is in an eminent degree the case with the great eschatological hopes of Christianity.
Finally, we have still another eschatological conclusion to mention and reject; a conclusion which is drawn from this theory by the advocates of the evolution theory.
It is noteworthy that in the Çatapatha Brâhmaṇa the same mythic conception which is employed poetically in Hebrew meets us tinged already with an eschatological colour.
He plays an important part in the eschatological literature of the Babylonians, but hardly none at all in the historical and incantation texts.
Psalm 2 is likewise an eschatological hymn, dealing with that same feature of the last days as Psalm 110, and the last futile rebellion of the nations against the will of Yahwe and Yahwe's king.
The actual content of the eschatological hymns has to some extent been shadowed forth in this discussion.
The psalm is not then an eschatological hymn as the wider application of verse 1 might suggest.
Turning from the introductions to the conclusions of the eschatological hymns we find that Psalm 149 is the only one of those found in the psalter that does actually end with, "Hallelujah.
The psalm is not then an eschatological hymn of praise, but rather an eschatological prayer.
It seems not improbable that the verses employing the third person, and the verses employing the second persons were sung by different choirs, and that we have in this psalm a liturgical eschatological hymn.
One not inconspicuous difference in these eschatologicalhymns is in the call to praise.
Similarly Psalm 2 must be assigned to the group of eschatological hymns.
This phenomenon seems to be particularly conspicuous in the eschatological hymns.
The imagery describing Yahwe's activity belongs to eschatology, and we undoubtedly have here aneschatological hymn in praise of the king.
Here again, as in Psalm 110, because of the prominence of the king in this dramatic setting forth of one of the important features of the last days, Psalm 2 must be classed as an eschatological hymn in praise of the king.
Gospel is exhausted in its world-renouncing, ecstatic and eschatological elements, or at least, that it is so inseparably united with these as to fall along with them.
One does not think, he lives and dreams, in the eschatological mode of thought; and such a life was vigorous and powerful till beyond the middle of the second century.
The moralistic mode of thought is classically represented by the Shepherd of Hermas, and the second Epistle of Clement, in which, besides, the eschatological element is very prominent.
The eschatological view is certainly very severely repressed, but it always breaks out here and there, and still guards the spiritual from the secularisation which threatens it.
It was an evil inheritance which the Christians took over from the Jews,[98] an inheritance which makes it impossible to reproduce with certainty the eschatological sayings of Jesus.
Nevertheless the eschatological series of ideas connected the Gentile Christians very closely with the early Christian ideas of faith, and therefore also with the earliest ideas about Jesus.
The eschatological ideas of Papias were not Jewish Christian, but Christian; while, on the other hand, the eschatological speculations of Origen were not Gentile Christian, but essentially Greek.
Contemporary historical facts are seen now in the lurid light of fear, more often in the more brilliant light of eschatological hopes.
It is not impossible that they may be due to the eclectic spirit of an author who gathered from many quarters material for his eschatological pictures.
Probably, therefore, this passage expresses the bold eschatological hopes of a later time, when Judah was to be finally redeemed and the heathen annihilated.
To interpret the kingdom wholly from an eschatological point of view would involve a failure to apprehend the spiritual greatness of the personality with which we are dealing.
The eschatological teaching of Jesus has its place along with the ethical, and may be regarded not as annulling, but rather reinforcing the moral ideals which He proclaimed.
The Jew is one who persists in the impenitent rejection of Christ, but must be saved, for it is the Jew who has to complete the eschatological process of the Heilsgeschichte.
Again, this is in keeping with Christian tradition which holds that the metaphysical status of election and the promise of eschatological salvation as given to the Jews in the Old Testament are fulfilled in Jesus who is ".
As regards the details of the eschatological hopes, they were fully set forth by Irenæus himself in Book V.
Footnote 157: It may, however, be noted that the old eschatological aim has fallen into the background in Clement's conception of the Church.
In the second century the realistic eschatological ideas no doubt continued to foster in wide circles the popular idea that God had a form and a kind of corporeal existence.
It harmonised with theeschatological tendency of Christendom, and at the same time was fitted to replace the material eschatological expectations that were fading away.
The insufficient Christological and especially the eschatological disquisitions spoiled the enjoyment of the work in later times (on the Latin Irenæus cf.
In one sense salvation was primarily an eschatological concept, though its formulation was different among Jewish-minded and Greek-minded believers.
The eschatological expectation of the "revelation of Jesus Christ" is strongly marked, but there is no emphasis on the hope of resurrection.
But when the creed states that Jesus will "come again in glory to judge both the quick and dead," it means the Jewish eschatological expectation, and to use its language to express modern thought is unfair to both.
Emmet, The Eschatological Question in the Gospels and other Studies, pp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eschatological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
