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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eschatology \Es'cha*tol"o*gy\, noun [Gr. ? the furthest, last + -logy.] The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eschatology
noun: the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "eschatology": Buddhology, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, Z, apodosis, apologetics, canonics, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crisis theology, culmination, curtain, curtains, day of doom, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, dialogical theology, divinity, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, doom, doomsday, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, existential theology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, hagiography, hagiology, hierology, izzard, last, last breath, last days, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, logos Christology, logos theology, natural theology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, omega, patristic theology, payoff, period, peroration, phenomenological theology, physicotheology, quietus, rationalism, religion, resolution, resting place, scholastic theology, secularism, soteriology, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, systematics, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the Judgment, theology, trump of doom, windup
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