Eschatology - Topics

How Islam weighs deeds against mercy on the Day of Judgement Deathbed conversion and the labourers in the vineyard: is a late yes equal Purgatory as salvation still being worked out after death Why the 144000 anointed class made Jehovah's Witnesses salvation exclusive Why the god of the dead is rarely the god people pray to most How atheist parents explain death to a child What is the Mahdi expected to do in Twelver Shi'i belief? Why do some traditions teach the annihilation of the wicked instead of eternal torment? What does agnosticism have to say about the afterlife Why did the idea of purgatory develop as a middle state after death? Do animist traditions grant animals an afterlife How cultures place ancestors on either side of the natural line Does Shinto have an afterlife at all? How does the Antichrist figure function in apocalyptic literature? How do traditions describe the resurrection body? Near-death experiences get read as glimpses of an afterlife — how do researchers explain them? What Taoism says happens after death What happens to the soul between death and the resurrection of the dead? How does the image of a new heaven and a new earth relate to the present world? Why has universal salvation remained a persistent minority position? How does the last judgment differ between Christian and Islamic teaching? Do animals have souls in Islamic and Christian theology How do millennial movements set dates for the end of the world? What does the Day of Judgment involve in Zoroastrian eschatology? Why did nineteenth-century Adventist movements expect an imminent end? What is the difference between the rapture and the second coming? Millenarian expectations and how groups handle a failed prophecy What does the messianic age look like in Jewish eschatology?