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doomsday
(redirected from Eschaton)

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doomsday, domesday
the day on which the Last Judgment will occur


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Accepting that Jesus was God's messiah necessitated significant revision of inherited preconceptions, but if a militant model of messiah-ship was merely interrupted or postponed until the eschaton, perhaps that revision did not extend far enough.
Second, Israel's distinctive covenantal relationship with God will continue until the Eschaton.
In Christian terms, the vision of governments bringing about a heaven on earth is the Gnostic heresy that Eric Voegelin used to call "immanentizing the eschaton.
 
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