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Eschatology vs Amillennialism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between eschatology and amillennialism

is that eschatology is system of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death while amillennialism is a view in Christian eschatology that rejects the claimed future thousand-year physical reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, in opposition to premillennial and some postmillennial views of the Book of Revelation, chapter 20, claiming instead that the number of years in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number and that Christ's eventual physical reign will be permanent.

eschatology

English

Noun

  • (countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.
  • (uncountable) The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian and Islamic theology, the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment.

    • Derived terms

    * eschatological * eschatologically * eschatologist

    See also

    * Judgment Day * Revelations * Antichrist * Ragnarok * Apocalypse * Armageddon

    External links

    * (wikipedia "eschatology") English words suffixed with -ology

    amillennialism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Christianity) A view in Christian eschatology that rejects the claimed future thousand-year physical reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, in opposition to premillennial and some postmillennial views of the Book of Revelation, chapter 20, claiming instead that the number of years in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number and that Christ's eventual physical reign will be permanent.

    • Related terms

    * amillennialist * postmillennialism * premillennialism