The Afterlife and the End of the World.

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This course explores the variety of attempts, especially in Christianity and its influences, to understand the fate of us as individuals and the world collectively when we will cease to exist in the familiar way, along with what those expectations imply for how we act in the present life in the present world. This exploration, traditionally called Eschatology (study of the last things) was formerly articulated as the study of death, judgment, heaven, and hell, and more recently generalized as the study of our ultimate Christian hope. Prerequisites TH 1301 or SMC 1314 .