In any case, the Egyptian eschatology offers many points of resemblance to certain of the later Jewish beliefs, and to Christian doctrine.
Several of these we have already examined, and have seen how the same idea passed into the eschatology of the Western Church.
Marcus, in giving the name of Acheron to the flaming mouth of the beast, betrays a slight tendency towards that importation of classical ideas into Christian eschatology which Dante afterwards developed to such an extent.
In his eschatology he is no less conservative than in his descriptions; witness the judgment of the dead by Minos (431 sqq.
This is not a region in which human thought can live; and the symbolical eschatology of religion supplies us with forms in which it is possible to think.
All attempts to turn his eschatology into a rationalistic (Arnold) or a materialistic (Kabisch) theory must therefore be decisively rejected.
There is no doubt that those who believe space and time to be only forms of our thought, must regard the traditional eschatology as symbolical.
But our religion--although its doctors may protest against this--is fundamentally and for the most part a compromise between eschatology and ethics; it iseschatology pressed into the service of ethics.
Romans of the earliest City-state, it will be plain that a gruesome eschatology was an impossibility for them.
Even the eschatology of the eleventh Odyssey is not cruel, it is comparatively colourless; and, as I said just now, this also may be said of the Roman ideas of Orcus and the Manes.
But what has all this to do with the eschatology which Lucretius attributes to the common people at Rome in his own day?
Origen's eschatology occupies a middle position between that of Irenæus and the theory of the Valentinian Gnostics, but is more akin to the latter view.
The two conceptions opposed to it, that of the early Christian eschatology and the rationalistic one, were still in vogue.
In the advanced eschatology of the Babylonians the demons play a minor part.
Considered as a whole, the other is not at all a bare prediction of the sacking of a city, fortuitously fulfilled forty years after utterance: it is a Messianic judgment, carrying a whole eschatology bound up with it.
The primitive Christian eschatology was preserved in the West as it was not in the East, and in times of exceptional distress the expectation of Antichrist emerged again and again.
The Gnostics rejected this eschatology as in their view the enlightened spirit already possessed immortality.
Although in recent theological thought attention has been mainly directed to individual destiny, yet the other elements of Christian eschatology must not be altogether passed over.
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.
It is not at all improbable that Jewish eschatology in its later developments was powerfully influenced by the Persian faith.
The eschatologyof the New Testament attaches itself not only to that of the Old Testament but also to that of contemporary Judaism, but it avoids the extravagances of the latter.
Mahommedanism reproduces and exaggerates the lower features of popular Jewish and Christian eschatology (see the separate articles on these religions).
The individual hoped that he would live to share the nation's good, and thus the two streams of Old Testament eschatology at last flow together.
It is in the apocryphal and apocalyptic literature of Judaism that the fullest development of eschatology can be traced.
Peculiar elements in Paul's eschatologyare the doctrines of the Rapture of the Saints (1 Thess.
This belief in individual immortality is expressed poetically and obscurely: it is later than the eschatology of the people.
Heaven and hell, with characteristic variation of details, have held an important place in theeschatology of many creeds and races.
We gain more than we lose by awaking to find that our Theology is human invention and our eschatology an unhealthy dream.
The above sketch of the eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians is drawn from their own religious texts.
I hope soon to have the opportunity of setting forth the development of this sidereal eschatology with greater precision in my lectures on "Astrology and Religion in Antiquity" which will appear in 1912 (chap.
I have spoken of this solar eschatology in the memorial cited infra, n.
The author of the passage in question may have been more or less accurate in giving his god the external appearance of Mithra, but he certainly did not know the eschatology of the Persian mysteries.
Of the nature of this curious and fantastic type of literature we have seen some examples in 2nd Thessalonians and the Synoptic eschatology (Mark xiii.
In particular, apocalyptic eschatology is firmly repressed in favour of a doctrine of eternal life in the Spirit.
Greek tendency to misapprehend the Jewish eschatology and resurrection-doctrine (iv.
Its stock in trade was Jewish eschatology as developed in the long succession of writers of 'apocalypse' since Daniel (165 B.
Some such eschatology of divine judgment and reward is an almost necessary complement to the legalistic type of religion.
See Charles, Jewish and Christian Eschatology; and for the latter view, Muirhead, The Eschatology of Jesus.
In the Christian hopes of the future as in the Jewish eschatology may be distinguished essential and accidental fixed and fluid elements.
Yet throughout the Hebrew Old Testament the Eschatology of the Nation greatly predominates over that of the Individual.
Charles interestingly shows, introduces a double individualism into the older, Social and Organic, Eschatology of the Hebrew Prophets.
The hopes of the Messiah are confined to the former, and a somewhat different eschatology underlies the two works.
The eschatology is similar to that taught in the similitudes of the Book of Enoch.
The eschatology of a nation--and the most influential portion of Jewish and Christian apocrypha are eschatological--is always the last part of their religion to experience the transforming power of new ideas and new facts.
This Iranian dualism is proved to have penetrated into the late Jewish eschatology from the beginning of the 1st century before Christ, and did so probably still earlier.
The earliest form of Pauline eschatology is essentially Jewish.
Eschatology deals with the precursors of Christ's second coming, as well as with the second coming itself.
Schleiermacher: "Eschatology is essentially prophetic; and is therefore vague and indefinite, like all unfulfilled prophecy.
On the special department of eschatology the standard works are R.
The development of anEschatology occurred in that section of Jewish opinion which remained on the fringe.
Thus, in theEschatology of Judaism, this idea of Judgment predominates.
But quite apart from this indefiniteness of attitude as to the meaning of immortality, it is scarcely possible to speak of a Jewish Eschatologyat all.
Footnote 8: No one would attempt to infer Stephen Phillips' eschatology from the setting of his Christ in Hades.
