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pareschatology Theol.|ˌpærɛskəˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[f. Gr. παρέσχατο-ς penultimate + -logy.]
A term introduced for theories about human life after physical death and before the final resolution.
1976J. Hick Death & Eternal Life i. 22 Whereas eschatology is the doctrine of the eschata or last things, and thus of the ultimate state of man, pareschatology is, by analogy, the doctrine of the para-eschata, or next-to-last things, and thus of the human future between the present life and man's ultimate state. Ibid. iv. 34 The rather rare Greek word pareschatos means ‘penultimate’ or ‘next-to-last’, and enables us to coin ‘pareschatology’ as the study of the next-to-last things, on analogy with ‘eschatology’, the study of the last things. I am grateful to my colleague Michael Goulder for this useful word. 1977Theol. Today XXXIV. 182 His own constructive proposal for a ‘pareschatology’ is a form of the doctrine of resurrection expanded to include what he calls ‘vertical’ as opposed to ‘horizontal’ reincarnation. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 390/4 He examines in detail Western and Eastern pareschatologies (ie, pictures of what happens between death and an ultimate state). |