Eschaton

I find it interesting, if you don't mind a brief excursus, that the Greek word "eschaton" which means the end of the world, that is to say, the end of time also means the ends of the earth, which is to say the limits of space. ❋ Robert M. Petersen (2005)

Wow, this will never happen again — indeed, I sense the eschaton is imminent from the fact that it’s happening now — so duty impels me to sayit: ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Niebuhr’s version of politics, the central fact of human nature this side of the eschaton is sin, and it is the purpose of government not to eliminate sin, but to constrain or ameliorate its bad effects by passing laws and using armed force prudently. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The eschaton is the end of the world, when we will finally know the truth for what it is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The source of immanentize the eschaton is the 1952 New Science of Politics, by Eric Voegelin,” he explained. ❋ William Safire (2004)

More and more regularly, defenses of continuationism appeal not backward to the apostolic period, but forward to the eschaton, which is making rearward inroads into the present. ❋ Mark Snoeberger (2010)

I think another way of putting it is, "The priest is the man of the eschaton." ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, West shows how sexual pleasure is a foretaste of the eschaton — an appropriate suggestion and a good example of Christianizing sexuality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, the great east window in York Minster contains all of salvation history from creation to the eschaton, but it cannot be seen with ease, even with corrective lenses, from the ground level. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Harper's point man in PEI crashes through the underbrush, announcing Harper's moves to immanentize the eschaton, something that conservatives apparently once frowned upon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He tried to imminentize the eschaton on a Friday – a big no-no to a catholic like McCarthy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In its more earnest moments the ACoC does engage in its favourite pipe-dream of immanentising the eschaton and it even hires people to help. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the same issue of the Toronto diocesan paper, Fresh Expressions is exhorting ACoC Anglicans to indulge in the seemingly worthy, but ultimately futile fantasy of hastening the eschaton by trying to build the kingdom of God on earth: ❋ Unknown (2010)

A: "Not unless [tofu] [marginalized] the world [economy]" B: "What a distubing eschaton" ❋ Elder Spawn (2005)

Have you [visted] Eschaton or [DailyKos] [lately]? ❋ Ladder (2005)

In [truth] his [divorce] was eschatonic. ❋ Eschatonic (2013)

[Hurry], so that [we can] [IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON]! ❋ Solomaxwell (2004)