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Eschatology (The Last Things)

Eschatology (The Last Things), 11th century
John Tokhabi, Last Judgment, around 1100. Icon, tempera. St Catherine monastery on Sinai, Egypt 11th century Public domain

What the Church confesses about the end. The Creed holds that Christ will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and of his kingdom there shall be no end, and that we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come. Orthodoxy teaches a particular judgment at death and a general resurrection and last judgment at the Second Coming, and is deliberately reticent about the detail of what lies between them.

Sources

  • Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (381 AD) OCA
  • St. John of Damascus, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV NPNF
  • Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church archive.org

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