Introduction

Phenomenology of Eschatology', seeks to begin the process of understanding phenomenology and eschatology together by examining phenomenologically certain key eschatological concepts. Phenomenology is widely said to have begun with the work of Edmund Husserl. Thus separating 'phenomenology' is a philosophical method from earlier philosophical uses of that term, most notably in Hegel. While already nascent in his Logical Investigations, phenomenology emerges explicitly in Husserl's Ideas towards a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. The idea of the life-world as constitutive of the individual is one of the major themes in twentieth-century Continental philosophy, and has its roots in phenomenology. Eschatology and phenomenology, then, while structurally similar, would seem to have little to do with each other except for a shared period of intellectual popularity. While some will argue that phenomenology has strict methodological controls, and is therefore defined principally by that methodology, others seem to include the study of figures who have practiced phenomenology within the field of phenomenology.