Beliefs and customs surrounding death, funeral rites, and mourning provide a window into a society’s most deeply held values. In the monotheistic faith of Islam, eschatology – belief in the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-din) and resurrection (al-qiyama) – underlies many practices. Public mourning rituals that commemorate the deaths of saints and martyrs are closely linked to the concept of salvation...

Plato's Theory of Reincarnation:Eschatology and Natural Philosophy Douglas R. Campbell If the twin pillars philosophy are theory forms immortality soul, then his psychology divided identification self as reincarnation.1 eschatology deserves this status because it is at intersection some most important Platonic commitments, such that soul immortal; virtuous person rewarded both in life afterward...

In this article, the relation between crisis, dying, and apocalypse is examined from vantage point of Franz Rosenzweig’s philosophy revelation. Following suggestion that truth—for finite temporal beings like us—can only be found in time, article suggests there exists an intrinsic truth death. Truth not or even primarily logical mathematical according to Rosenzweig. reality our lives implies esc...

During the twentieth century, Catholic theology moved to reject misuse of imaginaries afterlife. By insisting on a de-cosmologization “last things”, theologians endorsed Christocentric eschatology. However, physical material view remains dominant in popular perception afterworld. Recently, some authors have engaged reevaluation role imagination. In eschatology as well, several assert need for m...