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Eschatology as a Religious-Moral Sanction by Ján Komorovský is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Eschatology as a Religious-Moral Sanction about?
In general, eschatology is understood to refer to that part of a religious doctrine that focuses on the last (Greek eschata) things of man, the society and the world, or the cosmos and is accordingly divided into individual (anthropological), social (collective) and cosmological eschatology. 1 On the anthropological plane, the last things comprise a man's life after death, his salvation or damnation, posthumous purification (purgatory), eternal life; on the social and cosmological plane -expectation of the millennial kingdom (chiliasm, millennialism), termination of this age (the end of times, the end of the world), Christ's Second Coming (Parousia), universal resurrection, the Last Judgement, etc. The present study is concerned with individual eschatology in its enfolding towards the idea of retribution and moral sanction. Sanction is primarily a legal term. Already in the Roman law, Legis Sanctio Poenaque, it signified the law and punishment for its violation. In present-day legal practice the term sanction is used in a threefold meaning. It is, in the first place, approbation or endorsement of a decree, treaty, agreement, etc., further, approval or confirmation of a certain meas
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- Author
- Ján Komorovský
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1991
- Field
- Social Sciences