eschaton

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The apocalypse

   The apocalypse; the approach of Christ’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a conception of or circumstance pertaining to this era.

   • Near-synonyms: Revelation, Armageddon
   • Only in the eschaton will God’s purpose gain its final fulfilment, a fulfilment, be it noted, which may still include some form of movement within a time-series.
   • And this is also true of the revelation of the eschata: they do not reach us in a discourse about the future still to come, but in an action, in which God has already really begun them in us.
2. 2

   An end or fulfilment of history in general.

   • immanentize the eschaton
   • He, too, constructs a philosophical history towards an eschaton. In a peculiarly inverted manner he is among the believers in progress—the goal being the undoing of the things done.
   • The most major of these eschatons involves the 65-million-year Cenozoic era, which began with the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that decimated the dinosaurs and is now closing with another mass extinction event.

The neighborhood

• neighboreschatology
• neighborimmanentize
• neighborrevelation
• neighborrevelator