Thursday April 10, 2008 7:00 pm
Stanford University
Cummings Art Building ROOM 2
Professor Almut Hinze
“Defeating Death: Eschatology in Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity”
The doctrine of the Last Things, or eschatology, is an important component not only of the Zoroastrian, but also of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions. Themes associated with eschatology in these four traditions include ideas of judgement - both Individual after a person has died and universal at the end of time -, heaven as a place of reward and hell as one of punishment, and a redeemer who resurrects the dead and ushers in a new era of perfect existence and everlasting life in the presence of God. The similarities in eschatological teachings between the so-called Abrahamic religions, on the one hand, and those of Zoroastrianism, on the other, are even more remarkable if one considers that such eschatological ideas are not found in the texts Read More
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