The Messianic Meme

In light of the coming and going of the recent rapture, and the 2012 doomsdayers--positive and negative alike--this article by Carter Phipps called Apocalypse Now, Progressive Style has an interesting take on all of the hullabaloo of the coming world changes.

There is a Part II: No More Messiahs that rounds out Phipps' argument.

Word of the post is eschatological.

es·cha·tol·o·gy

 [es-kuh-tol-uh-jee] Show IPA

noun Theology .

1.

any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc.

2.

the branch of theology dealing with such matters.

Origin:
1835–45;  < Greek éschato ( s ) last + -logy