Theol. [f. Gr. ἔσχατο-ς last + -λογία discourse: see -LOGY; cf. F. eschatologie.] The department of theological science concerned with ‘the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell.’
1844. G. Bush, Anastasis (1845), Pref. iii. Scriptural Eschatology, or the doctrine of the last things.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 228. The Eschatology of the Apocalypse and the Epistles.
1879. Baldw. Brown, in Chr. World, 24 Dec., 825/3. Eschatology, the science of the last things, is, as a science, one of the most baseless.
