Legends of the End by Charles Upton (.ePUB)
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Legends of the End: Prophecies of the End Times, Antichrist, Apocalypse, and Messiah from Eight Religious Traditions by Charles Upton
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Overview: Whether the world ends tomorrow or lasts for centuries, we all exist in a ‘climate’ of the End of Days. As Thomas Merton wrote, ‘We live in an age of two superimposed eschatologies: that of secular anxieties and hopes, and that of revealed fulfillment. Sometimes the first is merely mistaken for the second, sometimes it results from complete denial and despair of the second.’ The ‘end of time’ obviously relates to history, but-just as obviously-it cannot be contained within it. Legends of the End have always been with us; every spiritual tradition that has a story of the beginning of things must also have one of their final end-the end of the earth, of the universe, of time itself. And just as all such myths symbolize invisible realities, so every historical event is precisely an invisible reality made visible and tangible.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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