ABSTRACT
Eschatology is the study of last things—the ultimate end, the consummation, and final fulfillment of all things during and at the end of history. With the exception of Berdyaev, previous personalist philosophers did not emphasize the need for an eschatological personalism. For some scientific accounts of the cosmos, all things will end in a deep freeze and a vast meaningless nothingness. But for the world’s Abrahamic religious traditions the end involves an apocalyptical judgment and destruction of the evils of this world, a total re-making or re-creation of this world, and then the fulfillment of each individual’s personal destiny. The destiny given to each individual is a free gift from God. Destiny and purpose are intrinsic to the eschatological conception of persons because people are created by God to be free, meaning-seeking individuals who live in community with other free creative individuals.
