Tag: Eschatology

The book launch opened the sixth conference in the Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium series held at the University of Notre Dame: Christology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium.

The church’s eschatological nature can be explained this way—the pilgrim church, which set out on its journey after Christ’s ascension, will be visibly united with the heavenly church at the end of time, when humanity and all creation will be re-established in Christ, writes Fr Eliah Abboud.

Theologians ranged through topics as diverse as Rosemary’s Baby, the heat death of the universe, whether we will be male and female in heaven and Dante’s Inferno at the fifth instalment of the growing Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium conference series at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

In February next year the University of Notre Dame will hold a course and conference on the 'last things.' But why does 'eschatology' matter?