page_title: Christian eschatology
section_title: The Second Coming
hierarchical_section_title: Christian eschatology / The Second Coming
caption_attribution_description: Icon of Second Coming (also used for All Saints Sunday). Christ is enthroned in the center surrounded by the angels and saints, Paradise is at the bottom, with the Bosom of Abraham (left) and the Good Thief (right) holding his cross. Greece. Around 1700 Wood, gesso, tempera. Size - 34.5 x 27 cm Private Collection. Bibliography Sotheby's: Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art. London, 1991, p 155. Второе пришествие. Греция. Около 1700 г. Дерево, левкас, темпера. Размер - 34,5 х 27 см. Иконография Рай Лоно Авраамово Все святые Христос в Славе Второе пришествие Происхождение Неизвестно. Местонахождение Частная коллекция. Библиография Sotheby's: Icons, Russian Pictures and Works of Art. London, thursday 28th november 1991. Страница 155
context_page_description: Christian eschatology, a major branch of study within Christian theology, deals with "last things". Such eschatology - the word derives from two Greek roots meaning "last" and "study" - involves the study of "end things", whether of the end of an individual life, of the end of the age, of the end of the world or of the nature of the Kingdom of God. Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology focuses on the ultimate destiny of individual souls and of the entire created order, based primarily upon biblical texts within the Old and New Testaments.
  Christian eschatology looks to study and discuss matters such as death and the afterlife, Heaven and Hell, the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, the rapture, the tribulation, millennialism, the end of the world, the Last Judgment, and the New Heaven and New Earth in the world to come.
  Eschatological passages appear in many places in the Bible, in both in the Old and the New Testaments. Many extra-biblical examples of eschatological prophecies also exist, as well as church traditions relating to the subject.
caption: Icon of the Second Coming. Greek, ca. 1700 A.D.
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