ABSTRACT
Most religions share some form of an eschatological vision: more commonly it is a vision that anticipates the end of the physical world, the coming of a better world. Such apocalyptic events are usually structured around the coming of a Messianic figure. Christian eschatology from its monotheistic counterparts in the Abrahamic tradition. Whereas Judaism and Islam have one eschatological center, fixed in the future, Christian eschatology unfolds as this tension between two eschatological nodal points: between the already of the Incarnation and the not yet of the Parousia. Eschatology's reduction to the time of the Parousia, and to the apocalypse associated with it, might have been the result of disassociating eschatology from Pneumatology. In the Eucharist, however, this link between eschatology and Pneumatology is preserved most importantly perhaps in the epiclesis. That makes the Eucharist the most genuinely eschatological event and eschatology the most authentic interpreter of the Eucharist.
