RELIGION / Eschatology

Paper · Semantic Scholar

ABSTRACT This paper applies Carl Schmitt’s katechon—the restrainer of doom in Christian eschatology – to ideas about population and development in Cold War Taiwan. Focusing on the authoritarian regime’s alliance with anti-communist Christians and technocrats, this paper coins the concept of “latecomer time” as a political theology aiming to catch up with forerunner states and parent churches. Both technocrats and pr…

Reference · Wikidata

aspect of Islamic theology concerning the end times and afterlife

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Islamic eschatology is the aspect of Islamic beliefs, predictions and narratives dealing with end times. Not unlike some other Abrahamic religions, it includes both prophecies of the end of the natural world, of the dramatic events ("signs") signifying its approach; and the afterlife where the dead wait behind barzakh until they are resurrected to be judged by God (ḥisbā) for their conduct during their life on earth…

Book · DOAB

Eschatology and mission relate to some of the most important theological aspects. It is obvious that, presently, the theological discussion about eschatology raises new questions concerning its place regarding the implications for mission. Without a clear understanding of eschatology, missiology is unable to answer the questions of the world in which it finds itself at the moment.

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